2026-02-07.3_A Lorde - art and economy

“[…] even the form of our creativity is often a class issue. Of all the art forms, poetry [& fragments] is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one that can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. […] A room of one’s own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewrites, and plenty of time.”

• Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women redefining Difference