Reading Lorde’s passage and seeing how she is being put into a category of being a “deviant, difficult, inferior, or just plain ‘wrong’.” does in fact, upset her. She has every right to be upset by that because of the injustices and prejudices that follow her in her life. To me, Lorde has every right to be mad and angry, and I’m with her, because we live in a world that does not value women and places even less importance on women of color and heavily discriminates people in the LGBTQ+ spectrum. When it comes to her being black and a lesbian she makes sure to let us know that while we may be oppressed within the differences of our identities, that in the end the are one in the same. Since I am a gay, Hispanic, cisgender male, none of these rank higher than the other. If I get discriminated because I am hispanic it’s also because I am gay, and vice versa. If definitely see her point-of-view on this, but I think back to Collin’s reading and how though we should weigh our “oppressions” as one we need to also see that some do weigh a bit more than others. For example, Donald Trump’s current stance on the immigrant/Muslim ban does affect me as an permeant resident in the United States, but doesn’t so much affect as much as my other two qualities, being a man and being gay. I feel that there are differences in our type of oppressions and that some do weigh more, but at the same time not to put a counter on how much a person can be oppressed, otherwise it becomes some kind of trivial thing, but I’m of course willing to see and read other points of view on this.
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