The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House
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“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House[1]” is an 1984 essay by Audre Lorde. It briefly addresses a vital dilemma that artists who are women of color are often overlooked or tokenized in the visual arts. She argues that, "in academic feminist circles, the answer to these questions is often, ‘We did not know who to ask.’ But that is the same evasion of responsibility, the same cop-out, that keeps Black women's art out of women's exhibitions, Black women's work out of most feminist publications except for the occasional ‘Special Third World Women's Issue,’ and Black women's texts off your reading lists.” Lorde’s statement brings up how important it is to consider intersectionality in these feminist art discourses, as race is just as integral to any discussion on gender.
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