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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,

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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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