7.1: Introduction

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    Audre Lorde delivered “The Uses of Anger,” later published in Sister Outsider (1984), as a keynote speech to the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in 1981. The association had been criticized in its early years by women of color for its racism and its failure to include them in the conversation (Olson, 2011). Her audience was largely White, academic women, and her speech was an admonishment as much as it was an argument. Her claim was that anger, especially Black women's anger, was not a problem to be managed but a tool of knowledge. Lorde was talking about anger and about racism, but the pattern she identified is even broader. Who is allowed to feel which emotions, and to show them in which settings, turns out to be reliably gendered, and racialized, despite the physiological processes across gender and race being the same.

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