For International Women's Day 2026, I just re-read "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" chapter in Audre Lourde's "Sister Outsider". Those four pages (in my Penguin Classics version) hold such a lot to think about.

This is the famous bit that is often quoted:

"It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. _For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house._ They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support."

Words to ponder not just today, but every day.

#AudreLorde #IWD2026 #IWD #SisterOutsider #intersectionality

"You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order for us to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness." - Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

#Quotes #AudreLorde #SisterOutsider

#AmReading (ja, auch! Ich hab eigentlich immer mehrere Bücher parallel am Start!)

#AudreLorde : #SisterOutsider (englisch)