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I think that this poem is mostly about identity. There is a way that the author implies that its about a woman. "woman rally before they march" reminds me of the women's suffrage.

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"and the ladies neither notice nor reject
the slighter pleasures of their slavery."
I think that this quote is an example of Lorde saying how people are being oppressed yet do not try to do anything nor even know they are being oppressed in the ways they are.

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I believe this refers to how people with more than one identity is underrepresented, and there is trouble trying to stand out for themselves

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This poem is about a woman talking about how she has many identities that make her a minority. She talks about the difficulties of her identities. This poem is also about how people don’t understand that everyone has more than one identity.

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I think this is referring to a group of women who identify as feminists but can't stand up for themselves. Lorde says how she sees herself at the end of the day no matter what and she sees herself how people see her
"But I who am bound by my mirror

as well as my bed

see causes in colour

as well as sex"

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The title is posing a question on why it isn't easy to have several identities and to resist oppression in society.

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"and sit here wondering / which me will survive / all these liberations."

I think this means that so many parts of her have been liberated and then pushed back again. She is wondering when she will fully be free to be herself.

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"An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them first and the ladies neither notice nor reject the slighter pleasures of their slavery. " The women are being treated differently and they don't like it but they deal with it anyways.

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"and sit here wondering

which me will survive

all these liberations."
Since Lorde has so many different identities, she sees that each are fighting each other but also one may lose and which identity will she still have at the end.

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I think this poem is about how a lot of people don't understand that you have more than one identity, and most of the time more than one of them are oppressed. The woman don't have to worry about their race, they just think about how they are mistreated as woman. They don't think about how black woman are not just mistreated because of their sex, but their race as well.

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The poem is about those who define themselves as feminists but continue to accept and benefit from the oppression of other groups.  "sit here wondering

which me will survive

all these liberations."

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Nedicks is an american fast food chain made in 1913 - probably popular when Lorde was around

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In the sentence, “discussing the problematic girls / they hire to make them free,” and “the ladies neither notice nor reject / the slighter pleasures of their slavery.” I feel like Lorde is referring to the notion of a “whites-only” feminism. That because of her intersectionality she does not have the privlage that white women do, but as a women she is equally as oppressed as them.

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¨An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them first¨ is talking about how mixed people have to acknowledge their privilege of having more power than a fully black person would.

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“Who said it was simple” they are stuck, in their appearance and they rally against the injustices ingrained in the system

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The title itself is vague in the sense that we don't have much context

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The title itself is vague in the sense that we don't have much context

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but, we can predict that the author is asking the rhetorical question of who said it was simple/easy to resist oppression, to speak up for yourself?

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"Who said it was simple"... was it simple to bear anger? To see someone as a woman in today's society? How was this message a way to see ones presence as a woman.

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I think this refers to identity, saying that being Lorde's identity is not easy to be.

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I think she is speaking on just regular life. How her life isn's simple because of her many identities that make her a minority.

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I think the title might mean that change is not simple. They talk about being bound by a mirror and I think this means that she feels trapped by her appearance and identities.