All posts by Guest Contributor
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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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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...
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Personal is Political: Audre Lorde: Sister Insider
By Pratibha Parmar My own trajectory as a queer, feminist activist and filmmaker has roots in the 1980s when I first came across the writings...
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The difference between poetry…
A Collective Love Poem by The Audre Lorde Project The . difference between poetry and...
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The Reception of Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 – Voices From Around The World
By Dagmar Schultz With this contribution I want to relate a few of the many voices that illuminated Audre Lorde’s impact after viewing the film“Audre Lorde...
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Poem for Audre Lorde
By asha bandele Author’s note: Audre Lorde was my teacher and my mentor. This poem, written two years after her transition into the Spirit world,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Continuation in Death: Generous Inspiration from the Warrior Poet
By Morgen Snowadzky It may seem incorrect to talk about death for a birthday celebration. I believe that we must embrace death to appreciate life....
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On Michael Sam Coming Out
By Cheryl Cooky Nearly a year ago today, I was invited to deliver a lecture to the students at Wabash College (a small, all-male, liberal...
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Personal is Political: Sexual Identity and “Nigerian Culture”
By Adejoke Tugbiyele I was born in Brooklyn, New York to Nigerian parents. Like most children of immigrants, it became clear to me that survival...
