Black, Lesbian, Womanist

      It was not her comrade brother against who her incredible strength was directed. She fought alongside her man, accepting or providing guidance according to her talents and the nature of their tasks. She was in no sense an authoritarian figure; neither her domestic role nor her acts of resistance could relegate the man to the shadows. On the contrary , she herself had just been forced to leave behind the shadowy realm of female passivity in order to assume her rightful place beside the insurgent male.