The idea of the internalized audience came to me via the blog of Hugo Schwyzer.

This is our audience, both external and internal.

These voices are internalized and used to justify our actions and beliefs even to the extant of harming ourselves and others, as in the case of American white-supremacist, patriarchal, materialist-capitalist culture. The audience tells us the socially acceptable ways we should behave according to the various combinations of the above conditions. The audience are those voices of restraint, criticism, and divisiveness we have inherited through the particular conditions of our birth: those that belong to our body (race, sex, and sexual orientation) and those we are born into (ethnicity, religion, gender, class, etc). It is a transgressive form of writing, taking the idea of crossing boundaries as the basis of its form. A simple definition of biomythography comes from Ted Warburton: “Biomythography is the weaving together of myth, history and biography in epic narrative form, a style of composition that represents all the ways in which we perceive the world.” It often involves the use of multiple genre of writing, including poetry, fiction, biography, drama, and creative nonfiction. Biomythography is a term created by Audre Lourde, radical feminist, lesbian, and woman of color, to describe her1982 book Zami.

Zami biomythography