Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.