“There are not single-issue struggles because we do not live single-issue lives.”
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Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life and talents to confronting all forms of injustice and oppression. She believed that there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberati…
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culture · American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992) · librarian · poet · novelist · writer · women's rights activist · essayist · university teacher · teacher · feminist · philosopher · also Audre Lorde, Lorde
Born 18 February 1934 · Died 17 November 1992 · Q463319
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2026· 11 entries
“Let me tell you first about what it was like being a Black woman poet in the”
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“there is certainly no liberation, no future, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between me and my oppression”
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Rolling Stone en Español: 5 años de Solar Power de Lorde: Un conflicto interno de vacaciones
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Ad-hoc-news.de: Lorde - Ultrasound World Tour heads to Munich and Berlin - Ad-hoc-news.de
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RouteNote: Austin City Limits 2026 Lineup: Charli XCX, Lorde, Twenty One Pilots, Skrillex and More
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Time Out Worldwide: Lorde at All Points East 2026: set times, last-minute tickets, setlist and what you need to know
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Radio X: Lorde at All Points East 2026: line-up, stage times, tickets and more
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RouteNote: Rock en Seine 2026 Lineup: The Cure, Tyler, The Creator, Lorde, Deftones and Nick Cave
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KPFA: Cinema as Prayer showing and James Baldwin and Audre Lorde on Suffering and Joy
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Deccan Herald: Quote of the day by Audre Lorde: “Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as…”
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2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Your silence will not protect you / Audre Lorde
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Yahoo: 55 Audre Lorde Quotes on Intersectionality and Empowerment
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2024· 2 entries
CounterPunch: Poetry and Revolution: Audre Lorde’s Prayers to the World
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The Nation: Audre Lorde Has More to Tell Us Than a Handful of Quotes
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2022· 2 entries
68th Street and Lexington Avenue by Hunter College was renamed "Audre Lorde Way"
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The International Astronomical Union approved the name Lorde for a crater on Mercury
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2021· 5 entries
Deadline.com: ‘Jezebel’ Director Numa Perrier To Produce And Star In Audre Lorde Indie Biopic ‘The Erotic’
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Refinery29: Reclaiming Audre Lorde’s Radical Self-Care
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The New Republic: Audre Lorde Broke the Silence
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USA Today: Google Doodle celebrates poet, civil rights activist Audre Lorde's 87th birthday
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Google celebrated her 87th birthday with a Google Doodle
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2020· 2 entries
YourTango: 55 Inspiring Audre Lorde Quotes
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Hip-Hop Wired: Honoring Audre Lorde & Toni Morrison's Legacies For Black History Month
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2014· 1 entry
Lorde was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago, Illinois, that celebrates LGBTQ history and people
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2003· 1 entry
In Lorde's files after she died
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2001· 1 entry
Publishing Triangle instituted the Audre Lorde Award to honour works of lesbian poetry
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1994· 1 entry
Is a Brooklyn-based organization for LGBT people of color
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1992· 3 entries
Died 1992-11-17.
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“When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
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Received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded American Book Awards (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
To discuss a number of her literary works and poems
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1985· 1 entry
Audre Lorde was a part of a delegation of black women writers who had been invited to Cuba
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1984· 2 entries
Lorde started a visiting professorship in West Berlin at the Free University of Berlin
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And, consequently, gave rise to the Black movement in Germany
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1983· 1 entry
Audre Lorde delivered an address as part of the "Litany of Commitment" at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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1981· 4 entries
Lorde was among the founders of the Women's Coalition of St
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Went on to teach at her alma mater, Hunter College (also CUNY), as the distinguished Thomas Hunter chair
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Lorde and a fellow writer friend, Barbara Smith founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press which was dedicated to helping other black feminist writers by provided resources, guidance and encouragement
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Lorde and Joseph had been seeing each other since 1981 , and after Lorde's liver cancer diagnosis, she officially left Clayton for Joseph, moving to St.
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1980· 1 entry
Together with Barbara Smith and Cherríe Moraga, she co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U
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1979· 1 entry
Which dealt with the civil rights of the gay and lesbian community as well as poetry readings and speeches
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1978· 1 entry
And collected in Sister Outsider, Lorde theorizes the Erotic as a site of power for women only when they learn to release it from its suppression and embrace it, without the sexualized meaning it often holds in mainstrea
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1977· 1 entry
Lorde became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP)
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1976· 1 entry
That established Lorde as an influential voice in the Black Arts Movement, and the large publishing house behind it – Norton – helped introduce her to a wider audience
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1974· 1 entry
From a Land Where Other People Live (Broadside Press) shows Lorde's personal struggles with identity and anger at social injustice
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1970· 1 entry
After having two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan
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1968· 3 entries
Met Frances Clayton, a White lesbian and professor of psychology who became her romantic partner until 1989
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Lorde published The First Cities, her first volume of poems
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Lorde was writer-in-residence at Tougaloo College in Mississippi
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1966· 1 entry
Lorde became head librarian at Town School Library in New York City, where she remained until 1968
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1962· 1 entry
Lorde married attorney Edwin Rollins, who was a White, gay man
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1961· 1 entry
Studied at Columbia University, master's degree (1961).
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1954· 1 entry
Spent a pivotal year as a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a period she described as a time of affirmation and renewal
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-02-18.
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