Rivera-Fuentes Consuela
Social Sciences, Open University, UK.
J Lesbian Stud. 2007;11(3-4):177-87. doi: 10.1300/j155v11n03_01.
This piece reflects on and reacts to Audre Lorde's critique of racism within Lesbian communities. One purpose of the article is to honor and rescue Lorde's wonderful insight into the power of words when uttered and shared by women, as well as her ideas about differences and connections that exist between Black and white feminisms. Lorde's insistence on a 'sisterhood,' which embraces the 'other' and ourselves at the same time, is a recurrent thought throughout this paper. The article is also firmly grounded in the author's own experience of alienation and racism in the European context of Women's Studies. The second purpose of this position piece is to offer practical suggestions for how to keep Lesbian Studies alive.
本文反思并回应了奥德丽·洛德对女同性恋群体中种族主义的批判。文章的一个目的是尊重并挽救洛德的卓越见解，即女性说出并分享的话语所具有的力量，以及她关于黑人和白人女权主义之间存在的差异与联系的观点。洛德对“姐妹情谊”的坚持，即同时接纳“他者”和我们自己，是贯穿本文的一个反复出现的思想。本文还牢固地基于作者本人在欧洲女性研究背景下所经历的疏离感和种族主义经历。这篇立场文章的第二个目的是就如何使女同性恋研究保持活力提供切实可行的建议。
