All posts by Guest Contributor
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Op-Ed: A Home of Our Own: Temporary Housing and LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
By Nicole S. Junior In 2012, twenty-one-year-old Romelle Johnson was transported by ambulance to a local Brooklyn, New York hospital.* While en route, an EMT...
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AUDRE LORDE — THE ETERNAL QUESTION
By Kalamu ya Salaam During the tumult of the seventies, in publications such as The Black Scholar and black World, I engaged with and eventually...
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Three Degrees of Connection
By C.C. Carter It’s what happens when generation “the studied” meets generation “the studier”—connection. We, some two thousand plus miles a part from each other,...
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Mockeries of Separation (a poem)
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
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Audre Lorde and Spelman College
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
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Broken Mothers, Shattered Daughters: For Women Who Have Loved and Survived [Trigger Warning]
By Amoni Thompson Broken mothers raising shattered daughters reflecting familiar suns. Little black girls like me were always in some kind of trouble. Whether we...
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Personal is Political: Tribute to My Teacher and Friend Audre Lorde
By Melinda Goodman My writing is meant to be spoken out loud. My presence and the presence of the audience creates a sort of vibration...
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Personal is Political: Speaking Power to Truth: Conversations With Sisters Around Audre Lorde
By El Jones “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me....
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The Battle Against Misogyny at Spelman College
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
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Audre Lorde Comes to Spelman College Archive 2009
By Opal Moore “I must always be/ building nests in a windy place” . Audre Lorde, “Portrait” . “Conduct your blooming in the noise...
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POSTSCRIPT: a love note
By Michelle Parkerson “Don’t mythologize me.” Audre Lorde (from the documentary, “A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL”) Consider this a love note never sent, Audre, for that...
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Love Note for Audre Lorde
By Jennifer Abod Audre was the first black lesbian feminist that I saw in the flesh. I had discovered her several years before in a...
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Dear Audre:
By J. Bob Alotta Preface. There is a framed poster of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich in my office. It is a poster for a...
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Audre Lorde’s Year in Italy / L’ anno di Audre Lorde in Italia
By Margherita Giacobino Editors Note: We are grateful to Italian feminist lesbian activist, organizer, and author Roberta Padovano for making us aware of this important...
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Collective, Reflective Conversation on Community, Liberation
by Sappho Fulton and Ness white This conversation was one part of my and Sappho’s joint multilayered and interdisciplinary performance assigned for Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s...
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2 Poems Inspired by Audre Lorde by Melinda Goodman
By Melinda Goodman IAM …ARE YOU?…READY In her poem entitled, “Power”, Audre Lorde proclaims, “The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready...
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This Useful Death
By Robert Reid-Pharr We all have to die at least once. Making that death useful would be winning for me. I wasn’t supposed to exist...
