Our Dead Behind Us

Name: Our Dead Behind Us
Author: Audre Lorde

by Audre Lorde

Collection meditating on loss, memory, resistance, and survival

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Audre Lorde

African American poet and feminist theorist whose Zami: A Biomythography, Sister Outsider, and The Cancer Journals addressed the intersecting oppressions of race, gender, and sexuality with fierce clarity. Her essays articulated the concept of the erotic as a source of power. She described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.'

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