audre lorde

audre lorde

queer theory

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: April’s Arithmetics of Distance

This is dedicated to those who are just trying to make it through every day. It’s been gratifying on an almost cellular level to find that the queen mother Audre…

Jehan —

Apr 29, 2020

audre lorde

queer theory

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: March’s Poetry Is Not a Luxury

One of the biggest lessons of Audre Lorde’s work is the strength of coalitional politics. I need a movement that can hold my anger. I need a movement that can…

Jehan —

Mar 26, 2020

audre lorde

black history month

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: February’s Revolutionary Hope

I’m pairing Audre Lorde’s 1984 conversation with James Baldwin and arguably her best-known speech, “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” in hopes of exploring how our power…

Jehan —

Feb 17, 2020

audre lorde

queer theory

literature

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: January’s Uses of the Erotic

Introducing our new series: Year of Our (Audre) Lorde, a monthly analysis of works by queen mother Audre Lorde as they apply to our current political moment. First, how harnessing…

Jehan —

Jan 22, 2020

audre lorde

black history month

politics + activism

Black Queer Resiliency Will Guide Us Through Black History Month

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde

Carmen Phillips —

Feb 1, 2019

audre lorde

personal essay

first person

Line Breaks for Resistance: How Black Poetry Lets Us Rescue Ourselves

If Alice Walker once said “hard times require furious dancing,” then hard times call for reading poetry, particularly black poets. Follow zaynab’s journey in reconnecting with black poetry as a…

zaynab shahar —

Mar 27, 2017

#blacklivesmatter

audre lorde

politics + activism

“Revival: Women and the Word” Provides A Balm For The Devastation Of This Country

“If you are devastated by the state of this country and you aren’t sure what to do about it, you will watch this film and feel differently. I mean that.”

Aisha —

Jul 14, 2016

audre lorde

barbara smith

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: This Is What A Lavender Menace Looks Like

By the time straight women of the second wave had caught up to the times, queer women had already f*cked up their movement — and built one all their own.

Carmen —

Jul 22, 2015

andrea gibson

audre lorde

book features

The Vagaries of Love: How Poetry and Queer Movements Give Each Other Names

For National Poetry Month, an ode to the queer poets who talk about their love, fight for justice, and helped me save myself.

Adrian —

Apr 20, 2015

alice walker

Angela Davis

book lists

Rebel Girls: 9 Badass Black Feminists and Their Books That Shook the World

These women changed feminism forever with their scholarship. Let’s vow to never forget their names.

Carmen —

Feb 4, 2015

audre lorde

autostraddle book club

lgbt book reviews

The Speakeasy Book Club #1: Let’s Talk About “Sister Outsider”

“Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.”

The Speakeasy —

Oct 22, 2014

audre lorde

autostraddle book club

book features

The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!

The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.

Laura Mandanas —

Sep 22, 2014