Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider: Essays and SpeechesPresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth century literature. "[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware." The New York Times In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as

she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life

By eighteen

Why do some processes--like aging

Breaking the silence surrounding her family's past meant confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882--the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality

has always been Elsie's lifeline

like she helped him do so many years ago

In the tradition of Michelle Alexander

By writing her fears on paper

When she's forced to attend an international peace summit

" An interview with Césaire by the poet René Depestre is also included

Closed Door Romance

And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is