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Audre Lorde was a bad-ass poet, a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was born on Feb. 18, 1934, in Harlem to parents from Barbados and Carriacou. At an early age, Lorde knew her calling. She ...

ESSAYS -- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, p.1 -- Poetry Is Not a Luxury, p.7 -- Scratching the Surface : Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving, p.12 -- Uses of the Erotic ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jezebel director Numa Perrier of House of Numa Productions and Livia Perrier of Bazile Productions reteam to bring the life of famed poet and author Audre Lorde to screen. “Audre Lorde ...

Audre Lorde was born in New York City and was a prolific writer and poet whose work addressed the state of the world, confronted inequities, and brought to light the tossing aside of Black queer women ...

Shortly before her death, the eminently quotable Audre Lorde—an American original who became a major figure in women's, African-American and lesbian literature—took the African name "Gamba Adisa," ...

“Neither of us has forever,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotes Audre Lorde in her expansive biography of the prolific, Harlem-born poet and essayist. Lorde wrote this in a letter to Pat Parker, one of many ...

Audre Lorde—first of her name, breaker of limitations, guardian of complexity. She's a Black lesbian feminist icon. It’s hard to talk about intersectionality and radical love without mentioning or ...

Audre Lorde—first of her name, breaker of limitations, guardian of complexity. She's a Black lesbian feminist icon. It's hard to talk about intersectionality and radical love without mentioning or ...