Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem. I don’t remember the poem, but do remember her reading of it demanded my attention. I was ...

Audre Lorde described herself as a "black lesbian feminist mother warrior poet." She was proud of every layer of her identity and used her own experiences to discuss the overlap between these ...

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," ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This audacity gave birth to the essays and poetry that offered permission to all queer people of color to find their rightful ...

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,” ...