Audre Lorde was a bad-ass poet, a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was born on Feb. 18, 1934, in Harlem to parents from Barbados and Carriacou. At an early age, Lorde knew her calling. She ...

“[T]he master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” one of Audre Lorde’s most famous lines of poetry, encompasses her belief in the need to empower women across different races and ...

Audre Lorde was born in New York City and was a prolific writer and poet whose work addressed the state of the world, confronted inequities, and brought to light the tossing aside of Black queer women ...

ESSAYS -- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, p.1 -- Poetry Is Not a Luxury, p.7 -- Scratching the Surface : Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving, p.12 -- Uses of the Erotic ...