This week’s reading gave me a better understanding of the different forms of opression. A person is defined by many different aspects of themselves. Different forms of opression can be targeted to one or more of these aspects at the same time. As Audre Lorde’s experience with opression described in “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions”. She faces opression because she is Black, a woman, and lesbian. These readings opened my eyes to the ways different forms of opression intertwine with each other. Lorde describes facing opression in the Black community for being gay and in the gay community for being black. These are concepts that many people don’t think about unless they are experiencing it. To reference Lorde again, she states “I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of opression only” (Lorde). This statement perfectly expresses the idea behind this week’s discussion. Representing the fact that there are many forms of opression toward many aspects of a person and each form of opression has the same great impact. “Patriarchy, the System” by Allan Johnson focuses more on the gender aspect of opression. Gender play’s an important role in opression because it effects a greater, deep-rooted system built into our society. As I mentioned before, different forms of opression intertwine. Having that underlying gender discrimination impacts all other forms of opression. A great example of this being Audre Lorde’s story. She is effected by racism and homophobia but each of these forms of opression are amplified because she is a woman. Different forms of opression have some relationship with one another that further discrimination while also reinforcing systems of opression like the Patriarchy.