Notes from a trip to Russia, page 1 -- Poetry is not a luxury, page 25 -- The transformation of silence into language and action, page 29 -- Scratching the surface : some notes on barriers to women and loving, page 35 -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power, page 43 -- Sexism : an American disease in blackface, page 51 -- An open letter to Mary Daly, page 57 -- Man child : a black lesbian feminist's response, page 63 -- An interview : Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich, page 71 -- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, page 103 -- Age, race, class and sex : women redefining difference, page 107 -- The uses of anger : women responding to racism, page 117 -- Learning from the 60s, page 129 -- Eye to eye : black women, hatred and anger, page 141 -- Grenada revisited : an interim report, page 173.