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robert gober

It is not finally/ interesting to remember./ The damage/ is not interesting.

Louise Gluck

Helene Cixous. I was obsessed with this for a long time / obsession as a way of seeing / obsession as a working method / a dream we all know.

Source: afirethorn

Bhanu Kapil’s Blog, December 10^th, 2015 (quote / dandelions: Christina Peri Rossi’s State of Exile) + Audrey Patterson (a student of M’s at the Art Academy of Cincinnati)

Source: dreginald.com

amazonfeminist:

‘Remembering: A Time I Will Be My Own Beginning,’ Jeffner Allen. 1982.

(via lesbianseparatist)

Source: lesbianseparatist

mississippistreet:

queerfabulousmermaid:

mississippistreet:

– Betty McLellan, Beyond Psychoppression: a feminist alternative therapy, pg. 70

Okay but fuck racist radfem Mary Daly and fuck Betty McLellan because Audre Lorde definitely wrote “The Uses of Anger” circa 1981. And considering that Mary Daly didn’t fuck with Audre Lorde—not since 1979 when lorde wrote a letter critiquing her white supremacist views and behaviors—I am highly suspicious of this clear paraphrasing of Lorde’s argument which according to McLellan’s citation was written in 1984 after Lorde’s essay which was published as early as 1981.
This is the 1981 publication of “the uses of anger” that I found. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40005441
Here’s Audre Lorde’s 1979 essay “An Open Letter to Mary Daly” http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/lordeopenlettertomarydaly.html
Fuck the historical erasure of queer Black women’s words, ideas, and activism. Fuck that.

thank you for pointing this out.

audre lorde was a lesbian though- she used the words lesbian & dyke- let’s not say “don’t erase queer black women’s words” when by doing so you are obfuscating and rewriting the very important lesbianism that informed her politics.