Audre Lorde left this world with an incredible gift of honesty, hope, and some deliberate lessons of the 1960s. More of our lessons of navigating patriarchy and capitalism needs to root in the very real and evil decisions of a few. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies breaks down Lorde’s reflective and sobering essay, “Lessons from the 60s”, which explores the complexity of a time of great resistance, great progress, and huge contradictions. “As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60’s it is how infinitely complex any move towards liberation must be.” The complexities of capitalism, self-reliance, colorism, homophobia, liberalism, and the psychology of survival are all present in the struggle for liberation. Hopefully you leave this episode with more questions than answers and more space for holding the contradictions. Thank you in advance. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” -Audre Lorde
Question for our listeners
Who would you be if you were free?
Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 13
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
What Is Imperialism? An Introduction
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements by Malcolm X and George Breitman
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