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Audre Lorde (1934-1992) [2254] Abbie Rowe, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), courtesy of the National Park Service, Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement. The daughter of West Indian parents, Audre Lorde was born in Harlem. She graduated from Hunter College in 1961 and earned a Masters in Library Science from Columbia ...
By Audre Lorde. The difference between poetry and rhetoric. is being ready to kill. yourself. instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds. and a dead child dragging his shattered black. face off the edge of my sleep. blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders.
Jun 24, 2021 · Audre Lorde was a Black lesbian scholar, feminist, mother, and poet who challenged us to think about the intersectionality of politics and identity. Considering the impact of different dimensions of one’s identity—for example, sexual orientation, gender identity, racial identity, and class background—on one’s experience is crucial for ...
Mar 29, 2009 · Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Audre Lorde, born February 18, 1934 in New York City, New York, was an American feminist poet. The youngest of three daughters, Lorde was nearsighted to the point of legal blindness. She also didn’t speak till she was five, having first been inspired to speak by a short story that was read to her by a local librarian.
Audre Lorde ou Audrey Geraldine Lorde ( Nova Iorque, 18 de fevereiro de 1934 - Saint Croix, 17 de novembro de 1992) foi uma escritora estadunidense, filósofa, poeta e ativista feminista interseccional mulherista e dos direitos civis em especial das mulheres lésbicas e negras. Ela teve entre seus esforços mais notáveis o trabalho militante ...
A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents. She attended Catholic schools before...
In 1970, Audre and Edwin divorced. Two years later, Audre met Frances Clayton, a white psychology professor, who became her long-time romantic partner. They lived openly as a lesbian couple. As a teacher in academia, Audre was an outsider in many ways. In the 1970s, most professors were straight white men.
