Audre Lorde’s piece “There is no Hierarchy of Oppression” argues that intersectionality is crucial to battling oppression. As a result of each person’s unique identity, various modes of discrimination come about. For instance, a white lesbian and a black lesbian both face oppression but in a very different manners. Lorde notes how often times people mistakenly categorize these individuals into the same subgroups. This is detrimental to the nuances of the conversation. Going back to my example,  a conversation involving these two women and (let’s say) other white women, could ignore the way race correlates to gender oppression. What it all boils down to really is that all fights against oppression want to reach the same goal: ridding injustice, equality, and representation for all. Lorde is saying that you can’t really be fighting oppression if you’re not fighting all oppression and if you are not actively trying to learn a diverse range of experiences (other than your own). Allan G. Johnson also points out the importance of nuance and what actions are actually productive when trying to create change in society. His ideas argue that we are not at mercy to “the system” and question what the system actually is. The most significant thing I grasped from this reading was that we should not focus on determining who is more or less the cause of the patriarchy (individual actions) but rather place importance on how we would dismantle a system that perpetuates patriarchal ideology. Essentially meaning how can we restart, educate others, and figure out the real root of the problem.