Let us keep building our feminist future together.
A Litany for Survival
by Audre Lorde
For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children’s mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours;
for those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mothers
and their mothers
against a world which said
no
for all of us
this instant and this triumph
we were born to survive.
This year, we press forward at the edges, alive with courage, alive with love, alive with joy that fear and fascism cannot touch. The movements we nurture are radiant and uncontainable, transforming the world simply by existing, by refusing to yield. With your support, they not only endure—they flourish, they win, they continue to remake the world with beauty, possibility, and care.
Now is the moment to invest boldly—not tomorrow, not later, but today.
Together, we triumph,
photo of feminist icons Dr. Gloria Joseph with Audre Lorde