Tag Archives: Audre Lorde
Remembering Adrienne Rich: “Poetry was a feminist practice”
Tweet Ed. note: We regret publishing this piece without acknowledging or critiquing Rich’s history of transphobia and in particular her support for Janice G. Raymond, author of the discriminatory and hateful “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.” To be clear: By failing to acknowledge the late author’s views on womanhood, feminists risk writing [...]
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The Feministing Five: Una Aya Osato
TweetUna Aya Osato has been a performer all her life. But she didn’t become a writer until she realized that she had to become one. Unhappy with the limited roles available for women of color and specifically Asian women, Osato decided to write her own shows and own roles. The rest, as they say, is [...]
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Happy Birthday, Audre Lorde
Tweet Love is a word another kind of open— As a diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth’s inside Take my word for jewel in your open light. (“Coal,” 1997) The late activist, poet, novelist, and essayist Audre Lorde would have been 79 today. Celebrate her [...]
Pleasure Politics Part I: Employment, Economic Justice, and the Erotic