My thoughts on the reading “There are no Hierarchy oppressions”, Audre Lorde describes herself as a black, lesbian, feminist, and mother. I started to see what causes oppression when Audre identifies these groups and exemplifies that opperison comes in many forms. This idea of how power is the basis of social identities and all forms of oppression are linked together. She says, “I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference in all shapes and sexes and colors and sexualities and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression. I have learned that sexism and heterosexism both arise from the same source as racism”. As she said this I really didn’t think that way. I thought there were hierarchies in oppression. As I read on, she mentions how sexism and heterosexism are a source of racism because thousands of lesbians and gay men are black. seeing that the author is lesbian herself she goes on to say she is lesbian in a black community and that any attack that is being said to or brought to black people is either a lesbian or gay issue.