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Dear Audre…Epistolary Poems for Our Lorde
By Lyndon K. Gill In early June of 2013, the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) convened its thirty-eighth annual conference in Grand Anse, Grenada. Just a...
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Claiming All That Is Within Me And Loving Myself Fiercely
By Farah Tanis I was named by my mother at birth in the presence of my grandmother, keeper, vessel of the Gods and Goddesses, descendent...
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A Woman Speaks by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
A Woman Speaks By Cheryl Boyce-Taylor I pick a bunch of hibiscus blooms. What lessons shall I learn from the spell of their senses? ...
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A Tribute to Sally Gross
By Gabrielle Le Roux Editors Note: We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of radical and revolutionary South African activist Sally Gross. We can’t...
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On Audre Lorde
By Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman, Hebrew Biblical Scholar Professor Paula Cooey introduced me to the writings of Audre Lorde in a “Women, Religion, and Literature” course at...
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On Faith and Feminism: A “Sermon”
By Mary Kathryn Dean The Texts: Luke 8:4-15 When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in...
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Dear Audre Lorde
Dear Audre Lorde, I thank you for the poem that you were and the poem that you are. You are the poem...
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TFW’s Tanisha C. Ford and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan at Critical Feminist Thought and the African Diaspora
Join TFW Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Contributing Editor Tanisha C. Ford at the Critical Feminist Thought and the African Diaspora Symposium at UMass Amherst,...
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Call for Submissions: “Beyond Critique: Feminist Strategies in the 21st Century”
Editors: Susannah Bartlow (guest editor), Stephanie Gilmore, Duchess Harris. A lot of the daily cycle of social justice work involves hassle, toxicity and disrespect. Whether...
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Love Poem Legacies: Activating Collective Erotic Power in the Name of the Lorde
Sometimes it comes down to the pronouns. When Audre Lorde first tried to publish “Love Poem” in her 1973 collection From a Land Where...
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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...
