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2016

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

100 min

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The Legacy of Audre Lorde

There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a Black woman is being introduced in a professional setting. Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared.

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Roxane Gay
2020
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FindCenter Quotes ImagePoetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.

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Audre Lorde
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Have We Been Doing Self-Care All Wrong?

To understand how the term “self-care” has evolved, I dug into the history of the phrase. The term has origins in medical research, but its leap from academia to public awareness can be traced back to the Black Panther Party and Black feminist writers.

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Angelica Puzio
2021
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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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Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez (foreword)
2017
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a...

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adrienne maree brown
2024
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(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

Racism. The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and implied.

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Audre Lorde
2012
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Audre Lorde in Berlin - In bed, on racism at airport

Audre Lorde telling friends in 1992 about an experience she had at the Berlin airport.

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Audre Lorde
2016
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Audre Lorde and Ellen Kuzwayo, Berlin 1992

Ellen Kuzwayo, friend and comrade of Audre Lorde, visited her in Berlin in the summer of 1992 a few months before Audre's passing. Ellen Kuzwayo was a South African author and activist who became a member of Parliament after the South African liberation.

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Audre Lorde
2013
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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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Audre Lorde
2007
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