... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.

Language is also a place of struggle.