Born on February 18th, 1934 in New York City to Caribbean parents, Lorde preferred using poetry as a means to communicate at a young age. A Brief Biography Of Audre LordeĪudre Lorde was a poet, a librarian, a feminist, and a civil rights activist. In Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde explores how accepting her divine feminine power and queerness particularly strengthened her voice as a poet, ultimately asserting the transformative potential of embracing one’s unique identity through her reclamation of the “Erotic” and description of queer existence. Lorde affirms and reaffirms the beauty in difference and calls to action her readers and peers to recognize it in their work and lives. Sister Outsider, a collection of Lorde’s essays and speeches, is a timelessly relevant ode to embracing one’s true identity for all of its characteristics, whether they involve one’s race, gender, or sexuality.
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