I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.

… our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .