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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.

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A Burst of Light and Other Essays

This path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer.

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The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals

This volume contains three works by the famous US black, lesbian poet and academic, Audre Lorde. Both The Cancer Journals and A Burst of Light give an insight over a ten year period of her life with cancer. Sister Outsider continues her writing and documents her essays and speeches.

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When I Dare to Be Powerful—Women so Empowered Are Dangerous

Written with a “black woman’s anger” and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as ‘other.’

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A Burst of Light

The author discusses her life as a Black lesbian, her struggle against cancer, sadomasochism within the gay community, and apartheid and its relationship to racism in American society.

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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.

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