Finally, Lorde treats art as a disciplined insistence. “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (Sister Outsider, 1984) argues that poems are “the skeleton architecture of our lives,” shaping possibility before policy exists. Chants, murals, and songs repeat truths until they become common sense; consider the Chilean performance “Un violador en tu camino” (2019), replicated worldwide, which transformed private pain into public choreography.
Thus language, returned to daily use, chisels silence into a landmark others can navigate—mountains we can point to, climb, and defend. [...]
