A self-described Black lesbian mother warrior poet, Audre Lorde lived a life of possibility. To her readers, colleagues, and admirers, she offered a radical and liberating vision of the world in her ...

Untapped New York is excited to announce a new editorial collaboration with the Gotham Center for New York City History. In this series, we’ll share fascinating stories from the Gotham Center archives ...

Thursday's Google Doodle celebrates the words of poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde in honor of what would have been her 87th birthday. Google users will see a colorful rendering in Google's ...

Roxane Gay is a literary icon. So what do you get when you combine the author whose best-selling books include Bad Feminist, Hunger and Difficult Women with the revolutionary Black feminist Audre ...

Audre Lorde, the American poet, civil rights activist, feminist, and professor, is honoured in today's Google Doodle. The illustration of the self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" was ...

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 ...

The legacies of Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison and the influential spaces they both hold across a wide range of readers places them as towering giants of American literature. Lorde and Morrison share a ...

“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 ...

Feb. 18 (UPI) --Google is celebrating poet, feminist, professor and civil rights champion Audre Lorde with a new Doodle, in honor of Black History Month. Google's homepage features artwork from guest ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Through poems like “Coal,” essays like “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” and memoirs like “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name,” ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, ...