... momma help me turn the face of history to your face. - Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother - June Jordan

And when these concepts of race and class and gender absolutely collapse is whenever you try to use them as automatic concepts of connection.

I am a woman searching for her savagery
even if it’s doomed

If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.