In Audre Lorde’s “The Transformation of Silence Into Matter and Action,” she encourages the individual will to speak out. She emphasizes that what is important “must be spoken, shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood” (19). When Lorde mentioned how her silence was not going to keep her alive, it reminded me of Aimee Bender’s story “Ironhead.”
The ironhead boy struggled to fit in due to his physical abnormality. Because of this, he never found his voice, and ultimately past away. Similarly, after Lorde’s cancer scare, she realized that by being invisible, she was not truly alive. If the ironhead boy was to have spoken out about his troubles, perhaps someone would have been able to help, and possibly saved him. Thankfully though, Lorde found the perspective to live a life without silence, and realized how necessary it is to make herself heard.
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