ABSTRACT
Acting Like an insider and feeling like an outsider, preserving our self-rejection as Black women at the same time as we’re getting over—we think. And political work will not save our souls, no matter how correct and necessary that work is. Yet it is true that without political work we cannot hope to survive long enough to effect change. And self-empowerment is the most deeply political work there is, and the most difficult. —Audre Lorde 1
