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