Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde was a twentieth century feminist, civil rights activist, poet and author who provided voice to those oppressed due to their identity in American culture. Lorde was born in 1934 and throughout her lifetime she lived through some of the greatest social movements The United States of America has ever seen including: The Civil Rights Movement and The Women’s Liberation Movement. However, with this, Lorde also lived in a time of social and civil injustice and all of this seemingly sparked…

A common theme in Audre Lorde’s “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” is the idea of intersectionality and how these different categories make up a person’s identity. Lorde has many different identities that make her a whole. She has a hard time separating these things within her, because she is never just Black, or just a women, or just a lesbian. However, she is often forced to pick between her identities and is rarely allowed or comfortable enough expressing all three. Therefore, she quite often…

Overcoming Racism Theses: In Kiese Laymon’s How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Audre Lorde’s essay “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” they express moments of racism throughout each of their essays that connect the reader to the reality of racism being a current issue that is still problematic. #1 Body #1-Laymon Main idea In Laymon’s “Prologue: We Will Never Ever Know: Letters to Uncle Jimmy,” he gets an important mental note about his blackness from…

and civil rights activist Audre Lorde has written about her emotional expressions and transferred those feelings in many of her publications. Lorde’s novel “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” (1982), is a fabricated piece of the authour’s own life. The book is summed up with snippets of memoirs, and incorporates incidents from the authors’ reality as well as fictional events which all happen to the main character. The reader journeys through the alternate life of Audre Lorde from when she had…

After reading Audre Lorde’s biomythography, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, I discovered that although Lorde and I have incredibly diverse coming of age experiences, we share similar concerns about ourselves and realizations about the authority we have as individuals to make choices in society. For example, as Lorde enters into early adulthood and finally determines her identity in society, she begins to view life through a pragmatic lens, rather than an idealistic one. Similarly, as I enter…

kind of prejudices that exist in the world. Humans base their judgements off of the “mythical norm”, and in America, “this norm is usually defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure.” (Lorde, 2) It is no surprise that Audre Lorde has a problem with the way in which people deal with differences, she is a forty-nine year old black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother of two, who has most likely been discriminated against for each one of those qualities.…

Lorde implies that protecting and providing for them the best that one can should be a priority that is acted on, not just talked about. Speaking about putting them first and doing it are two very different things as are "...poetry and rhetoric...." (1030) Poetry is metrical composition in verse that uses figurative language, symbols, metaphors to help express aspects of internal and external realities in some meaningful way. The key is the meaningful way. Poets, as well as all artists, want…

race and feminism. By writing this poem, Audre Lorde is seeking for equality. She references to the fact that African American women tend to suffer more than a woman from any other race. She wants to impact society with her words, by bringing awareness to the fact that women are entitled to their rights, as well as African Americans in general. She places emphasis on the strong role that African American women play by saying, “I am/ woman /and not white” (Lorde 33-34). In this quote, she…

While there is no defining moment when feminist poetry began, the poets of the Women’s Movement were torn between the submissive pasts of their mothers and the hopefully liberated futures of their female offspring. Writers such as Sylvia Plath, Audre Lord and Sharon Olds broke the traditional norms in poetry with their intensely personal poetry. Their anger and frustration with female subjugation, as well as their distressing personal struggles and victories appear unconcealed in their works,…

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