Audre Lorde Project

Edie and Thea are great examples of Audre Lorde’ s message on fighting one’ s fears. Audre Lorde was an African American lesbian poet who wrote about how language is powerful and that silence never helps a person to get their argument across. Being an African American woman who was a lesbian, Lorde said that she was disrespected for her race as well as her sexuality. Lorde plays a crucial role in second wave feminism because she advocated for feminism and civil rights. Edie and Thea are two…

Audre Lorde is a black, lesbian, female, and feminist. She writes poetry and literature about her intersectional struggles and liberations in the black movement and lesbian movement. Lorde was alive during 1930s to the 1990s with a significant amount of her work being produced during the 1960s and into the 1970s. The main wave of feminism at this time was very white-centric, as were the gay and lesbian liberation and movement. The intersectional cross of her identity created extreme internal and…

I read by Audre Lorde I feel she bought up a lot of key points. The major points that stuck out to me was in the article Lorde is stating and suggesting that women oppress other women just as much as men oppress women and argues that women should seek to uncover and discuss the differences. She shed light on oppression and made it clear that we need to think about oppression from all angles and women need to realize that there is more to gender oppression than just from men. Lastly Lorde states…

Nation of Lies Why do we lie to others, but expect others to be honest with us? Today in society, lies have embodied the lives of many to the point where it has become a natural part of our lifestyle. Lying has become a natural habit for us, it has become a factor in how we carry out our lives. Whether we may have lied in consideration of how others may feel, or if it was because we did not want to carry out something we were assigned, lying has become so natural to us that we cannot…

According to Audre Lorde. The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action: She was born in 1934-19992. She was the Author of numerous collections of poetry and prose, Lord was deeply concerned with issues of class, race, age, gender, culture and health, particularly as they related to the experiences of women. In the 1960. A librarian, writer poet, teacher, feminist and lesbian, Lorde won numerous awards including a National Endowment for the arts grant and the American Library…

In “Coal,” Audre Lorde discusses the empowerment of African Americans through the metaphor of the physical earth. Lorde specifically uses the comparison between coal and diamonds to represent how something as seemingly worthless as coal can be just as valuable as diamond (Dhairyam); the coal also symbolizes the darkness of Lorde’s skin, something she takes pride of in her writing (Dhairyam). Lorde discusses two categories of words: those that are “open like a diamond on glass windows,” and…

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a semi-autobiography and semi post-modern post structuralism fiction. It is an elegant, however strange, mixture with metaphorical, mythic and fictional story lines. As a black author, Audre Lorde presents the story as a semi self-reflection of the inception of black lesbianism in the modern era. Although the vivid depiction of hetero-sexual and homo-sexual encounters is border-lined with exotics, this book is not intentioned to promote either promiscuity or…

Both Christina Rossetti and Audre Lorde have written each a poem in which the central theme is of a recurring memory of a time past. Their poems use a variety of literary devices that involves the reader in experiencing the occurring memory of a past time with the speaker of the poem. Through this involvement, between the reader and the voice, the poems misleads the reader into being captured by their dream like state that makes the reader misread the inconsistencies within them. This essay will…

“The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde contains about discrimination which occurred on the independence day in Washington D.C. Audre Lorde visits Washington, D.C. with her family where she comes across many things that she wasn’t aware of. Her family couldn’t stand up for themselves which made Lorde get frustrated about the situation. In the story Lorde was not allowed to do many things which shows that independence for Lorde, does not exist for everyone. As shown in the text, Lorde feels excluded…

Is destruction a human quality or is destruction based on gender? The texts Pinhook written by Janisse Ray and the poem “The Bees” by Audre Lorde offer interesting commentaries on this thought. Through the creation of specific power hierarchies and using the binary of submission versus domination in the context of human interactions with nature and interpersonally, the authors provide criticism of inequalities they see in the society around them. Based on the both of the authors’ backgrounds in…