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I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
Audre Lorde
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Credits xiii
Introduction. Create Your Own Fire: Audre Lorde and the
part i. from sister outsider and
1. The Transformation of Silence into Language and
2. Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface 44
3. Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation: An Interview
4. I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across
5. Apartheid U.S.A. 64
6. Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986 73
7. A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer 81
part ii. my words will be there
8. Eva’s Man by Gayl Jones: A Review 153
9. Self-Defi nition and My Poetry 156
10. Introduction: Movement in Black by Pat Parker 158
11. My Words Will Be There 160
12. Foreword to the English Edition of Farbe bekennen:
13. Preface to a New Edition of Need: A Chorale for
14. Poet as Teacher—Human as Poet—Teacher as
15. Poetry Makes Something Happen 184
16. My Mother’s Mortar 188
part iii. difference and survival
17. Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter
18. The First Black Feminist Retreat: July 6, 1977
19. When Will the Ignorance End? Keynote Speech at the
20. An Address Delivered as Part of the “Litany of
21. Commencement Address: Oberlin College,
22. There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression 219
23. What Is at Stake in Lesbian and Gay Publishing Today:
24. Is Your Hair Still Political? 224
part iv. reflections
25. Audre Lorde: My Shero, My Teacher, My Sister Friend 231
26. Audre’s Voice 238
27. Lorde: The Imagination of Justice 242
28. Remembering Audre Lorde 249
Epilogue. Bearing Witness: The Legacy of Audre Lorde 253
Contributors
Selected Bibliography 265
Chronology
Index
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Audre Lorde
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings