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21 hours ago · The tribute to Audre Lorde by Black bisexual feminist writer June Jordan was also too late. Jordan completed it in 1993, in time for Lorde’s first birthday as an ancestor, after years during which—as far as I can tell from my archival research and interviews—the two poets were not speaking to each other.
May 13, 2024 · Black feminism. Audre Lorde (born February 18, 1934, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 17, 1992, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) was an American poet, essayist, and autobiographer known for her passionate writings on lesbian feminism and racial issues.
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1 day ago · May 28, 2024. Raised by Caribbean immigrant parents in the 1930s depression-era Harlem, Audre Lorde (1934-1992) began expressing herself through poetry at a young age and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine in the 1950s. As a young woman, Lorde was told she would “grow out of” her queerness. Instead, she went on to pen essays ...
May 13, 2024 · Written by PinkNews Reporter. Save for later. Poet, academic, civil rights campaigner and intersectional feminist Audre Lorde can be seen in fascinating archive footage describing what it was like to be a Black lesbian in the 1950s.
May 21, 2024 · The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms—beautifully, forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."—Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection of poetry by . . . one ...
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5 days ago · Staten Island, NY 10305. The Alice Austen House presents Audre Lorde in photographs and historic texts. Powerful and Dangerous explores the intersection between language, activism and photographic messaging. The exhibition holds up a lens to the contemporary women's, LGBTQ+, and Black Lives Matter movements and considers how Lorde's words ...
May 17, 2024 · — Audre Lorde, "Uses Of The Erotic: The Erotic As Power" But activism isn’t always fun. True. But it doesn’t always have to be miserable either. It’s harder to convince people to engage in ...
