Audre Lorde’s essay “ The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” talks about the heterosexual biases that revolve around feminist academia. “As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”(2) I found this quote shares the enlightening view of how patriarchy rules and isolates and fades women in the way we don’t see. In a world dominated by men ruled with racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, etc., the voice of women will not be taken seriously. The article proposes to find two black women to join as part of a panel at the New York University Institute for the Humanities conference. In the last hour to express the tolerance and diversity of the conference. I think this hypocritical tolerance is very common in life. Lorde observes that she belongs to a marginalized group.


I love the quote you choose! I think it does a great job of highlighting her belief that liberation and radical change cannot happen on our own. There’s power in numbers and with people mobilized and united, the changes we can make are unfathomable. We really can make any change we want, that we agree on. The hard part is that last part. Like Lorde states, it takes a balance of shedding our differences and acknowledging them.