"Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde

My first impression of this speech was it was a little much. She seemed to overstate her point by talking a little much and drawing out her point. She talks about the differences of white women and lesbian black women and Third World Women. I was a little unsure about what or who 3rd world women were. Were they women who weren't considered 'upper class or wealthy"? I'm not exactly sure however as I continued to read, I began to understand her point. She began talking about women and how it has been always been taught to ignore differences but how it's important not to shed or ignore those differences. What I interpreted from this is that there is a difference black ad white women and while we educate and try to fight off oppression of men, we need to do the same and look at the differences between white and black women. The fear needs to stop and as a community, people need to look inside themselves and see that there needs to not be a difference between black and white women, or straight and lesbian black women. Instead of differences there needs to be unity and as Lorde says " See whose face it wears", see exactly just how many differences there are.