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Here's the full text of Audre Lorde's 1979 conference talk "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House": https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communication/masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-masters-house-oct-29-1979 (The text is from the collection _Sister Outsider_, and is posted at Iowa State University's Archives of Women's Political Communication, which I presume has the rights to post it there.)

And here's Tara Tarakiyee commenting on that talk, and how Lorde's argument is often misunderstood or misused in tech discussions, in 2026: https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House - Oct. 29, 1979 - Archives of Women's Political Communication

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✨Based Plant🎸1d ago

@JMarkOckerbloom ty for sharing, reading the 2017 reprint Your Silence Will Not Protect You rn, her whole body of work is so amazing and relevant today, it's very helpful to have an online resource to point people to.

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✨Based Plant🎸1d ago

@JMarkOckerbloom

There is some good audio too, I found
"Poetic Duet: Adrienne Reich and Audre Lorde".

Starting at 13:23, after introducing the poets, and detailing the og broadcast time and show, 1972, Reich reads Planetarium, in honour of, restoring Caroline Herschel, the obscure sister of the famous Herschel, who appears to have been a brilliant astronomer/too?

Maybe it was really her, not him as much? Cf Alma & Gustav Mahler.

Poets Reading their own work 🤍
https://on.soundcloud.com/oiRiQ0YIWNmP7D47rP

Poetic Duet: Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde

Classic appearances by two giants in the world of poetry regardless of gender or orientation, reading from their work and responding to their audience, brought together by the magic of recording tape

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