I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
Audre Lordestoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
Audre Lorde...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
Audre Lorde