Activism
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Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. [VIDEO]
A feminist is someone who is actively involved in the struggle against sexism. It’s as simple as that. That’s the bottom line. If you can’t...
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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By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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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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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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Using the Erotic to do Our Work
There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in...
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There is one path and one path only, it is the path towards embodied liberations
By Jessica Horn Editors Note: We were scheduled to post a reflection by Jessica Horn later in this second week of our global forum celebrating...
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The Magic and Fury of Audre Lorde: Feminist Praxis and Pedagogy
By Angelique V. Nixon I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new...
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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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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 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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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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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...
