With each of my own labels, like Lorde, I find identity and comfort, as well as fear and isolation. The narrative dictated to my gender by the dominant male gender often blurs to find the true story of my life. Therefore, I have often subscribed to the central idea that silence is a response to internalized or illicit acts and that, therefore, silence is required (Olson 57). Such prolonged male control forces everyone to remain confined in silence to “draw the face of their own fear; fear of contempt, of censorship, of judgment, of recognition, of challenge, of ambition” and let us recognize that it is in silence that we are immobilized not in our differences, but in our silence (Lorde 21 -22). Lorde argues that “differences within oneself are a strength to be harnessed rather than a liability to be modified” and that allowing differences to work together refutes a story of limitation (Alexander