Audre Lorde: Poetry Audre Lorde

In 1973, a 10-year-old African American boy named Clifford Glover was shot and killed by Thomas Shea, a policeman for the NYPD. In the days that followed, riots and protests tore through the surrounding area in Queens. Then, a year later, Shea...

The works of Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Junot Diaz have featured communities that are formed around a shared sexual identity: one that is either chosen to be empowering or one that is forced upon the community members. In some cases, these...

In “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Audre Lorde begins this essay by acknowledging the fact that there have been systems instituted to make people inferior in order to uplift others. Lorde then proceeds to argue that in...