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Rediscovering Audre
By Kathe Sandler The modern Black feminist movement was percolating when I was a child and I hardly knew it. Looking back all the signs...
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Blackbody Radiation and Blackbody Curve (Two Poems)
By Samiya Bashir Blackbody Radiation isotropic catalyst intake breath o barometric interference squall omen o friction: still sky winder o ...
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Breast Cancer: Lessons That Audre Lorde Taught Me
By Tanya Christian A Black feminist, lesbian, mother, socialist, and warrior poet, Audre Lorde embraced her “outsider” status and wore it like a badge of...
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Cross-Cultural Sisterhood: Audre Lorde’s Living Legacy in Germany
By Marion Kraft In 1986, the first book by Black German women was published. It was inspired by Audre Lorde, who had met some of...
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Personal is Political: Meaning to Survive
By Lynn Roberts Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde, A Burst of...
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A Tribute to my friend, Audre Lorde
By Ika Hügel-Marshall I have become stronger and more self confident because of my friendship with Audre Lorde. Thanks to her presence, my life has...
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A Love Note To Audre
By Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck (9 February 2014) Dearest Audre, It’s me Cassandra. So much has happened in my life since that spring evening in Munich in...
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My Coming Out As Black / Mein Schwarzes Coming Out
By Ria Cheatom (English translation by Cassandra Ellerbe-Dück) In January 1987, a white German girlfriend gave me a copy of the book Farbe Bekennen – Afro-deutsche...
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Personal is Political: Are You Doing Your Work? White Transmen Holding Ourselves Accountable to Audre Lorde’s Legacy
By Andrew J. Young When Aishah Shahidah Simmons first asked me to submit a piece to The Feminist Wire’s forum on Audre Lorde, I have...
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Audre Lorde Tribute
By Blanche Wiesen Cook and Clare Coss To Audre – beloved friend – as a galactic birthday celebration your words went viral on the internet...
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Audre Lorde at 80
By Cheryl Clarke Editors note: Since this is a special 80th birthday anniversary forum in celebration of one of our ancestor heroines, and Cheryl Clarke...
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Dismantling the Master’s House
By Nancy K. Bereano Audre Lorde’s powerful presence and visionary words made her iconic, one of the most influential thinkers and writers of the culturally...
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To Hell With The Goddess: In Celebration of the Human Person Audre Lorde
By Thomas Glave Even as I write these words I myself feel some ambivalence in regard to the “To hell with” in this work’s title. ...
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The Lorde Works in Mysterious and Magical Ways: An Introduction to TFW’s Audre Lorde Forum
I write libation to all those known and unknown ancestors across lifetimes that have gone before me and upon whose shoulders I literally stand. Tuesday,...
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Medicines for Our Survival: The Continuation of the Life of Audre Lorde
By M. Jacqui Alexander A Libation: Omi Tútù Ó Mì Tútù Ile Tútù Ona Tútù Tútù Laróyè Tútù Egún Tútù Irúnmalè Cool water It effects...
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Prologue: Audre Lorde – Word and Action
By Jewelle Gomez I’ve been thinking about Audre more than usual because I recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the publication of my black, feminist,...
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lovesong from the daughters of your pen
By Evie Shockley lovesong from the daughters of your pen . big and complex...
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Personal is Political: Accepting, Nurturing, Celebrating the Black Mother Within
By Ness white “The Black mother who is the poet in every one of us…that back place where we keep those unnamed, untamed longings for...
