"According to Lorde the outsider whom we reject is, in fact, a member of the family"  Joan Wylie Hall, Conversations with Audre Lorde

Outside the “academic colony,” Jewelle Gomez, Evelynn Hammonds, Bonnie Johnson, and Linda Powell joined me in 1983 in a five-woman dialogue called “Black Women on Black Women Writers: Conversations and Questions."

Cheryl Clarke, But Some of Us Are Brave and the Transformation of the Academy: Transformation?

The lesbian is never with us, it seems, but always somewhere else: in the shadows, in the margins, hidden from history … why is it so difficult to see the lesbian –even when she is there, quite plainly in front of us? Is it in part because she has been “ghosted” – or made to seem invisible – by culture itself?   Terry Castle A Polemical Introduction or the Ghost of Greta Garbo