by si isa

I have learned much from reading Audre Lorde, perhaps most significantly the “uses of anger.”  Because as a woman of color my anger is invalidated both by the dominant culture and within Asian American contexts, I have been taught to swallow my anger or risk being seen as too white and too female.  As Lorde writes, “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crushed into other people’s fantasies of me and eaten alive.”

Wei Ming Dariotis