There Is No Hierarchy In Oppression Audre Lorde Summary

Poetry, is a literal writing where any human being can express themselves, feelings, or anything they desire. Some of them even write poems that touches us so much that we could almost feel and know what their going through. Audre Lorde, a professional and amazing writer, was a great example of that. She wrote about her experiences with cancer, black issues, and how attacks on being a lesbian was a black issue. There were reasons for that.
Audre Lorde wrote the famous poem, There Is No Hierarchy In Oppression, because she thought that attacks on lesbian woman and gay men were a black issue. She thought this because thousands of men and women were gay or lesbian. In her poem, she discusses the importance of recognition, acceptance, and celebration of these various subjectivities, both in terms of her own well-being, and in terms of social cohesion. In her poem, it says, “From my memberships in all these groups, I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference comes in all shapes, sex, colors, and personalities; and that among of those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchy of oppression.” She is saying that with her experiences, she discovered that anyone could discover oppression

and some could be intolerant, but people who work so that there kids can have a future, then there could be no more discrimination.
Audre Lorde wrote another poem called, A Woman Speaks, for almost the same reason.

She wanted to let people who don’t think that women who don’t have power, actually has power too and that they are all equal. She explains to us how she is different in a unique way, and her magic that gives power to all woman. In her writing, the first stanza is longer for explaining the old and her new definition of magic. Although, on the last two stanzas, it develops her ideas that the magic empowers all the colored women. In the poem it says, “ I have been women for a long time, beware my smile, I have been treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new fury with all your wide features, promised, I am woman, not

white.”
These two poems are alike because they both tell us on how she tried to fix the racial problems that people had against color women. She inspired many people’s lives and changed their perspective about black lesbians, gays, and colored people. Even though it has been over 50 years since her passing, she still has a great affect on people today.
In conclusion, Audre Lorde was a historic, inspirational, and amazing poet that talked about racial issues, her cancer, and issues going on in the society as well. Her inspiring writings have changed the way people live, think, and act. She has had one of the biggest impacts on literature all over the world and continue to have one.