The Selected Works of Audre Lorde | 
pickThis is a crash course on Lorde‘s essays, speeches, poetry and more. A fascinating look at her mind at its most pointed - during keynote speeches and public appearances, to its more casual (still powerful and brilliant) journal passages from her time battling liver cancer. It‘s a multi-faceted look at an artist whose body of work is still so vital to our collective learning and advancement. Please read more Audre Lorde.
#ShowSomeLove - Fave Black Author: Unapologetically female. Unapologetically black. Unapologetically intelligent. Unapologetically feminist. Unapologetically lesbian. Simply UNAPOLOGETIC about WHO and WHAT and EVERYTHING she was! She spoke her truth without fear and told her-story without compromise!
Her words on poetry:👇🏽
pickExcept for a brief book of correspondence between Lorde and Pat Parker, I didn't really know Lorde's work, just as a reference point for other poets and thinkers. This is a solid introduction to her work, half essays and speeches, half selections from poetry collections spanning her career. The power she speaks from cannot be compared (and how frustrating that her writing from the 80s feels so timely, a bad sign that truly little has changed.) ⤵️
