Audre Lorde

What Is a Sister?: Audre Lorde and Pat Parker’s Letters Are a Balm for the Soul

Pat Parker and Audre Lorde
by Dianca London Potts
February 19, 2018 at 10:16am
The friendship that these feminist poets shared was intentional, deep, and illuminating.

Audre Lorde’s ABCs of Fighting Fascism: It’s Time for All of Us to Face our History

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
February 17, 2017 at 6:21am
When I don’t know what to do, I turn to the Lorde. And right now, a lot of us don’t know what to do. Read more »

Love as Political Resistance: Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler

by adrienne maree brown
February 14, 2017 at 9:14am
We don’t learn to love in a linear path, from self to family to friends to spouse, as we might have been taught. We learn to love by loving. We practice with each other, on ourselves, in all kinds of relationships. Read more »
a black and white photo of a Black woman with short hair in profile

Audre Lorde Thought of Self-Care as an “Act of Political Warfare”

by Sarah Mirk
February 18, 2016 at 4:46pm
Self-care can be subversive. Read more »