By Maryam Moosan-Clark In Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels, Sikivu Hutchinson takes us on a roller coaster ride through the different, interacting forms of...
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
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...
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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....
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...
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...
“We are feminist warriors, not perfectionists.” ~ Lisa Factora-Borchers ~ I begin with my sister Lisa Factora-Borchers’ quote to remind myself that striving for perfection is actually...
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...
There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in...
By Chris Rupertus The very first thing I say to my seniors on the very first day of the semester is this: “I have a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...