“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 was a powerful woman who used her writing to advocate for women’s rights, racial equality, and LGBT+ rights. Her intersectionality meant she faced hardship, but it also gave her immense ...
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 ...
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," ...
The Root: 15 Inspirational Audre Lorde Quotes You Need to Read Right Now
The Washington Post: A ‘cosmic’ biography tries to see Audre Lorde as she saw herself
In the third chapter of “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde,” titled “prologue,” author and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes, “This biography will consider what Audre considered ...
A ‘cosmic’ biography tries to see Audre Lorde as she saw herself
The Nation: Audre Lorde Has More to Tell Us Than a Handful of Quotes
A conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Black feminist writer, on her biography Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Audre Lorde, 1983.
Audre Lorde Has More to Tell Us Than a Handful of Quotes
Black feminist Audre Lorde would have turned 80 years old today. (She also shares a birthday with Toni Morrison, who turns 83.) Twitter is flooded with tributes, remembrances and quotes from the ...