Black Women
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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 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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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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For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton and All Other Black Mothers Who’ve Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain’t Enough
In “What is this “black” in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race),” the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, poignantly asks, “What sort of moment is...
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Feminists We Love: In Praise of Black Women Teachers
Editors Note: Instead of focusing on one or two specific Feminists We Love, this Valentines Day we highlight a photo-documentary project that uplifts progressive African-American...
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TFW at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Fourth Annual Mother Tongue Monologues
On Saturday, February 8, 2014, Black Women’s Blueprint hosted their Fourth Annual Mother Tongue Monologues for Truth Bearing Women, for Emerging Sons, and Other Keepers...
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Feminists We Love: Farah Tanis
Farah Tanis is a transnational feminist and human rights activist. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Feminist Organization Black Women’s Blueprint. She...
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Black Female Too-Muchness: Between Hypersexual Norms and Respectable Exceptions
By Janell Hobson Ten years ago, pop star Janet Jackson received the brunt of public outrage – which culminated in FCC fines – when Justin...
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Three Poems by Joy KMT
By Joy KMT Renisha McBride Even now you are being explained away your body laid on the coffee table and autopsied...
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(En)Gendering Greatness: Caught Between Richard Sherman and a Hard Place
By Tikia K. Hamilton “I’m the shit!” You will probably never hear me utter these words, even though, on most days, I must quietly remind...
