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4. It's a really good article. This following bit stood out for me...

Audre Lorde suggests that it is our responsibility as feminists to come to see these connections. Only in this way can we come to understand that the true liberation of one oppressed group cannot happen without the liberation of all oppressed people.
Here is how Audre Lorde puts it:

I am a
lesbian woman of Color whose children eat regularly because I work in
a university. If their full belies make me fail to recognize my
commonality with a woman of Color whose children do not eat because
she cannot find work, or who has no children because her insides are
rotted from home abortions and sterilization; if I fail to recognize
the lesbian who chooses not to have children, the woman who remains
closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support,
the woman who chooses silence instead of another death, the woman who
is terrified lest my anger trigger the explosion of hers; if I fail
to recognize them as other faces of myself, then I am contributing not
only to each of their oppressions but also to my own, and the anger
which stands between us then must be used for clarity and mutual empowerment,
not for evasion by guilt or further separation. I am not free
while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different
from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color
remains chained. Nor is any one of you (Audre Lorde, [1980] 1984.
Pp132-133).