She was interested in diginity and equality and morality, and, especially, in freedom. Formally, she was an Enlightenment philosopher, in that she believed in and used reason. Her legacy includes a vivid example of the simultaneity of thinking and activism, and of art and politics.
Her work embraced the last quarter of the twentieth century and spanned fiction, critical works of literature, political analysis in essays and speeches and books, and journalism. As Blake saw a whole world in a grain of sand, in each of Andrea’s sentences you can see the whole world the way she saw it.Īndrea Dworkin was a theorist and a writer of genius, an unparalleled speaker and activist, a public intellectual of exceptional breadth and productivity. Her whole theory is amazingly present in each phrase that she used. Yet even at the same time, her clarity and her passion and her inspiration to all of us to go further, go deeper, flows through her words. There’s something awful, in both senses, that is, terrible and awe-inspiring, both, about Andrea’s work having to be my topic, instead of my tool, speaking her words not only to further our work together as they were and we did, for over thirty years, but to speak about it, and about her, as a subject, and in the past tense.
This original transcript was prepared by secondwaver (blog now defunct).Īndrea should have been here for this.
MacKinnon at the Andrea Dworkin Commemorative Conference, April 7, 2006.
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