Notes on Sister Outsider

1. 从社会标签来看，一个人很难比Audre更差，黑人，女性，同性恋，但正是这样的处境，给了她额外的力量

2. 第一篇不要看，苏联旅行碎碎念，偶尔提到“社会主义”下，女性的处境，不必资本主义下好，虽然社会提供了更多的育儿辅助，但传统的职业限制依然存在，比如在幼儿园照顾小孩儿的都是女性

3. Poetry is Not a Luxury，语言动人，但没有话费太多笔墨解释背后的逻辑

“feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected kneel to men” （poetry）

4. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power，更普世，要把真诚的渴望放到生活中，而不只是sex，如果一个人对自己的工作没有真诚的渴望，而只是逐利的话，工作会变成职责或者养家糊口的工具，反之这个人是可以从工作中得到能量

”The principle horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms human need…Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion from ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to impossible, it is also profoundly cruel.“

5. 尤其喜欢Man Child，Audre讲自己跟伴侣养育儿子的心路历程，尤其是在儿子被班上的同学bully后，她意识到自己第一反应是指责儿子不够强大。但作为一个敏感的女权主义者，她马上意识到自己是不对的，不应该教一个小孩这个世界是”弱肉强食“的，被欺负了不一定要打回去，而是要知道为什么，自己到底错没错，如果自己没有错，那没必要堕落成对方的样子

“I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settled for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine. I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars a structure that programs him fear and despise women as well as his own Black self…”

“It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be strong if he doesn’t feel, or if he wins.” 这里我其实很有共鸣，因为我的社会化也是从“相信只有不去感受，不敏感，才能赢”开始的

“The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.”

6. 关于一个不是作家的普通人应该怎么践行女权，”teach by living”以及”share and spread”

7. 关于是否需要努力的教育别人，audre认为没必要，这是浪费力气，可以share观点，但不要有压力去说服，重要的是按照自己的观点生活。因为通常压迫者有时候看不到压迫本身，反而被压迫者来告诉他。

“Women of today are still being called uptown to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns.” (The Master’s Tool Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House)

“There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.” (Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference)

8. Audre是一个最适合谈“difference”的危害的人，因为她有太多的“标签”，也会面临做多的“difference”，白人会因为她是黑人，黑人男性会因为她是黑人女性，黑人女性会因为她是黑人女同性恋

“Racism, the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance. Sexism, the belief in the inherent superiority of one sex over the other and thereby the right to dominance. Ageism. Heterosexist. Elitism. Classism.” (Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference)

“We speak not of human difference, but of human deviance.” 人们之所能够说一个群体不对的时候，是因为她们脑子里有一杆尺，上面标注着应该的样子。

“It is easier once again for white women to believe the dangerous fantasy that if you are good enough, pretty enough, sweet enough, quiet enough, teach the children to behave, hate the right people, and marry the right men, then you will be allowed to co-exist with patriarchy in relative peace, at least until a man needs your job or the neighborhood rapist happens along. And true, unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”#But she is the one who live in trenches!!! Omg想哭

“As a tool of social control, women have been encouraged to recognize only one area of human difference as legitimate, those differences which exist between women and men….The oppressed must recognize the master’s difference in order to survive” (The Master’s Tool Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House)

9. 语言的艺术

“Seek her face in a man’s eyes”

10. Audre的特点：感受力很强，”everything was like a poem”，其实跟线性逻辑很不一样