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“My mother must have been other than woman”1: Matrophobia in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2023
The mother-daughter dyad is far from simple. Adrienne Rich examines it within the parameters of matrophobia, which is not fearing the mother but fearing to become like her.
Yomna Saber
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Audre Lorde, Labor Theorist: Rethinking Integrity within Late Capitalism

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2023
:Audre Lorde’s work is most often read for her insights in the fields of gender, sexuality, and critical race theory, and while her work certainly merits close attention for its groundbreaking contributions to these fields, I will suggest here that her ...
Kristina Popiel
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Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College

Harvard Educational Review
Public higher education is an essential component of a robust democratic society. Even as it is severely underfinanced and faces political attacks that would thwart the training of a critically engaged citizenry, students and faculty, together with ...
Jen Ha
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Andaiye and Audre Lorde's Black Transnational Sisterhood; or, "I Want You in This World"

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2023
:So many Black revolutionaries lived with and died from cancer. How did they make sense of their vulnerability when confronted with this illness? How did they balance fighting for the world and for themselves?
Sasha Ann Panaram
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"we were two ends of one taut rope": Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands

Meridians
:This article delves into Audre Lorde's journey to Soviet Eurasia in 1976. Focused on her writings, the author specifically examines the connections Lorde formed with Chukchee writer Antonina Kymytval' to shed light on moments of transnational feminist ...
Tatsiana Shchurko
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Self-care as resistance: Lorde, Foucault, and playfulness

Feminist Theory
Self-care has emerged as a critical practice of resistance in the current era of far-right resurgence. Building particularly on Audre Lorde’s insights, scholars, activists, and cultural workers conceptualize self-care as an act of political defiance and ...
Markus Holdo
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Nature as Narrative: Audre Lorde’s Confluence of Environment, Identity, and Activism

Creative Saplings
This research paper delves into the nuanced portrayal of nature in the writings of Audre Lorde, situating her work within the broader spectrum of Black women's environmental literature.
Yasmin Chaudhuri
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Intersectionality in Audre Lorde’s A Woman Speaks and Coal: A Case Study in Structural-Hermeneutic Approach

IAR Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2022
This research was aimed to determine intersectionality which has been discussed within academic fields such as psychology, gender analysis, human rights, political sciences, and many more include literature.
Wildha Nurazfani Azis, Fathu Rahman, M. Amir Pattu   +2 more
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Sister Outsiders of the Lesbian Bar: Spatial Hauntings in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Comparative Critical Studies
In weaving queer temporality and Black feminist theory together, this article examines the role of the lesbian bar in Audre Lorde's 1982 biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
Emma Wood
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Excerpts from Silence … Broken: Audre Lorde's Indelible Imprint on My Life

Feminist Studies, 2022
:The following are excerpts from the text of a talk that Aishah Shahidah Simmons delivered at the one-day symposium “Audre Lorde: 20 Years Later (A Celebration).” This gathering was organized by Hunter College's Women's and Gender Studies Program and ...
A. Simmons
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