The Audre Lorde Questionnaire To Oneself

The Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself was adapted from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” collected in The Cancer Journals. This resource was created by Divya Victor for students of her Creative Writing courses at Nanyang Technological University in January 2016.

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What are the words you do not have yet? [Or, “for what do you not have words, yet?”] What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary] “What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?” [List as many as necessary today. Then write a new list tomorrow. And the day after.] If we have been “socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition”, ask yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?”* [So, answer this today. And every day.]

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