"First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Lorde heals and re-envisions...

""The self-described black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture of prose, theory, poetry, and experience to interrogate oppressions and uplift marginalized communities. She was one of the first black feminists to target heteronormativity, and to encourage black feminists to expand their understanding of erotic pleasure. She amplified anti-oppression, even as breast cancer ravaged her ailing body."--Evette Dionne, Bustle Magazine Winner of the...

Although most scholars situate her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the United States, Audre Lorde (1934-1992) forged coalitions with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies is the first book to systematically document and thoroughly investigate Lorde's influence beyond the United States. Arranged in three thematically...

"A super helpful tool for: considering how you can care for yourself as an act of political warfare; considering what models exist in your realms of experience and knowing that can aid you in sustaining your spirit and wellness; examining what barriers exist to self care in your life; reflecting on how reducing harm in your personal life can aid in liberation on a societal level; taking inventory of your strengths and how they can serve you on your...

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.