[2] Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, illness and disability, and the exploration of black female identity.[3][2][4]. She did not just identify with one category but she wanted to celebrate all parts of herself equally. "[74] Lorde donated some of her manuscripts and personal papers to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Somewhere in that poem would be a line or a feeling I would be sharing. FOLLOW NBC OUT ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM. 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Audre Lorde, born Audrey Geraldine Lorde, February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer, radical feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil rights activist. Lorde discusses the importance of speaking, even when afraid because one's silence will not protect them from being marginalized and oppressed. Audre had been living openly as a lesbian since college. They had two children together. Florvil, T. (2014). Many Literary critics assumed that "Coal" was Lorde's way of shaping race in terms of coal and diamonds. [35], Her second volume, Cables to Rage (1970), which was mainly written during her tenure as poet-in-residence at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, addressed themes of love, betrayal, childbirth, and the complexities of raising children. [75], In 1962, Lorde married attorney Edwin Rollins, who was a white, gay man. Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. As an activist-author, she never shied away from difficult subjects. "[60] Self-identified as "a forty-nine-year-old Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two,"[60] Lorde is considered as "other, deviant, inferior, or just plain wrong"[60] in the eyes of the normative "white male heterosexual capitalist" social hierarchy. Lorde herself stated that those interpretations were incorrect because identity was not so simply defined and her poems were not to be oversimplified. [2] She and Rollins divorced in 1970 after having two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan. She insists that women see differences between other women not as something to be tolerated, but something that is necessary to generate power and to actively "be" in the world. Worldwide HQ. Also in high school, Lorde participated in poetry workshops sponsored by the Harlem Writers Guild, but noted that she always felt like somewhat of an outcast from the Guild. While "feminism" is defined as "a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women" by imposing simplistic opposition between "men" and "women",[60] the theorists and activists of the 1960s and 1970s usually neglected the experiential difference caused by factors such as race and gender among different social groups. Lorde encouraged those around her to celebrate their differences such as race, sexuality or class instead of dwelling upon them, and wanted everyone to have similar opportunities. She proposes that the Erotic needs to be explored and experienced wholeheartedly, because it exists not only in reference to sexuality and the sexual, but also as a feeling of enjoyment, love, and thrill that is felt towards any task or experience that satisfies women in their lives, be it reading a book or loving one's job. In 1962, Lorde married Edwin Rollins, a white, gay man, and they had two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan. [11], Raised Catholic, Lorde attended parochial schools before moving on to Hunter College High School, a secondary school for intellectually gifted students. [25] Together with a group of black women activists in Berlin, Audre Lorde coined the term "Afro-German" in 1984 and, consequently, gave rise to the Black movement in Germany. [22], In 1980, together with Barbara Smith and Cherre Moraga, she co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color. . "[73] According to scholar Anh Hua, Lorde turns female abjection menstruation, female sexuality, and female incest with the mother into powerful scenes of female relationship and connection, thus subverting patriarchal heterosexist culture. We must be able to come together around those things we share. Her first volume of poems, . Their relationship continued for the remainder of Lorde's life. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. She was the young adult librarian at New Yorks Mount Vernon Library throughout the early 1960s; and she became the head librarian at Manhattans Town School later that decade. She married attorney Edwin Rollins in 1962. She was 58 years old. Lorde inspired black women to refute the designation of "Mulatto", a label which was imposed on them, and switch to the newly coined, self-given "Afro-German", a term that conveyed a sense of pride. By late 1981, theyd officially established Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Gwen Aviles is a trending news and culture reporter for NBC News. Lorde's criticism of feminists of the 1960s identified issues of race, class, age, gender and sexuality. "[72], A major critique of womanism is its failure to explicitly address homosexuality within the female community. Not long after, she and her partner, Gloria Josephanother leading feminist author and activistmoved to St. Croix, the Caribbean island where Joseph was from. After separating from her husband, Edwin Rollins, Lorde moved with their two children and her new partner, Frances Clayton, to 207 St. Paul's Avenue on Staten Island. In Zami, Lorde writes about frequenting Pony Stable Inn and the Bagatelle, two lesbian bars in Greenwich Village. Rollins, 32, is an associate specializing in child dependency at Auxiliary Legal Services, a law firm. Birthdate: 1931: Death: 2012 (80-81) Immediate Family: Son of Neil A. Rollins and Edith M. Rollins Ex-husband of Audre Lorde Father of Private and Private Brother of Barbara Coons. [6] The new family settled in Harlem. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.*". To be Black, female, gay, and out of the closet in a white environment, even to the extent of dancing in the Bagatelle, was considered by many Black lesbians to be simply suicidal, wrote Lorde in the collection of essays and poetry. She was deeply involved with several social justice movements in the United States. Belief in the superiority of one aspect of the mythical norm. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. In Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson's documentary A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, Lorde says, "Let me tell you first about what it was like being a Black woman poet in the '60s, from jump. Profile. Callen-Lorde is the only primary care center in New York City created specifically to serve the LGBT community. Lorde followed Coal up with Between Our Selves (also in 1976) and Hanging Fire (1978). Lorde's time at Tougaloo College, like her year at the National University of Mexico, was a formative experience for her as an artist. Lorde had several films that highlighted her journey as an activist in the 1980s and 1990s. "[11] Around the age of twelve, she began writing her own poetry and connecting with others at her school who were considered "outcasts", as she felt she was. I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. In Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Lorde states, "Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring ideas. Elitism. She maintained that a great deal of the scholarship of white feminists served to augment the oppression of black women, a conviction that led to angry confrontation, most notably in a blunt open letter addressed to the fellow radical lesbian feminist Mary Daly, to which Lorde claimed she received no reply. The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry from the Publishing Triangle Awards is named in her honor, and she donated part of her work to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Alexis Pauline Gumbs credits Kitchen Table as an inspiration for BrokenBeautiful Press, the digital distribution initiative she founded in 2002. It is particularly noteworthy for the poem "Martha", in which Lorde openly confirms her homosexuality for the first time in her writing: "[W]e shall love each other here if ever at all. As she explained in the introduction, the book was both for herself and for other women of all ages, colors, and sexual identities who recognize that imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness. She wrote that I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined.. [32] Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years revealed the previous lack of recognition that Lorde received for her contributions towards the theories of intersectionality. Some Afro-German women, such as Ika Hgel-Marshall, had never met another black person and the meetings offered opportunities to express thoughts and feelings. She writes: "A fear of lesbians, or of being accused of being a lesbian, has led many Black women into testifying against themselves. But we share common experiences and a common goal. Black feminism is not white feminism in Blackface. The couple had two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan, but divorced in 1970. The film also educates people on the history of racism in Germany. This enables viewers to understand how Germany reached this point in history and how the society developed. She married attorney Edwin Rollins in 1962, and the couple had two childrenElizabeth and Jonathan. Her work created spaces for uncomfortable conversations on issues of racism, sexism, sexuality and class. In 1980, Lorde, along with fellow writer Barbara Smith, founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, which published work by and about women of color, including Lordes book I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities (1986). Audre Lorde states that "the outsider, both strength and weakness. She argued that, by denying difference in the category of women, white feminists merely furthered old systems of oppression and that, in so doing, they were preventing any real, lasting change. Born as Audrey Geraldine Lorde, she chose to drop the "y" from her first name while still a child, explaining in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name that she was more interested in the artistic symmetry of the "e"-endings in the two side-by-side names "Audre Lorde" than in spelling her name the way her parents had intended. She has made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing. Lorde considered herself a "lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" and used poetry to get this message across.[2]. The two were involved during the time that Thompson lived in Washington, D.C.[76], Lorde and her life partner, black feminist Dr. Gloria Joseph, resided together on Joseph's native land of St. Croix. Women are expected to educate men. They lived there from 1972 . During this period, she worked as a public librarian in nearby Mount Vernon, New York. The volume includes poems from both The First Cities and Cables to Rage, and it unites many of the themes Lorde would become known for throughout her career: her rage at racial injustice, her celebration of her black identity, and her call for an intersectional consideration of women's experiences. Born a rebel, she never had easy relationship at home, developing friendship with a group of 'outcasts' at school. It is also criticized for its lack of discussion of sexuality. Born: February 18, 1934, Harlem, New York, NY Died . She repeatedly emphasizes the need for community in the struggle to build a better world. Audre Lorde [1] 1934-1992 Poet fiction and nonfiction writer, activist Daughter of Immigrants [2] . [9] She emphasizes the need for different groups of people (particularly white women and African-American women) to find common ground in their lived experience, but also to face difference directly, and use it as a source of strength rather than alienation. Empowering people who are doing the work does not mean using privilege to overstep and overpower such groups; but rather, privilege must be used to hold door open for other allies. During that time, in addition to writing and teaching she co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.[18]. She was a librarian in the New York public schools throughout the 1960s. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation." [88][89] The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history,[90] and the wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. This term was coined by radical dependency theorist, Andre Gunder Frank, to describe the inconsideration of the unique histories of developing countries (in the process of forming development agendas). Audre Lorde was in relationships with Gloria Joseph (1989 - 1992), Mildred Thompson (1977 - 1978) and Frances Louise Clayton (1968 - 1989). Lorde earned her BA from Hunter College and MLS from Columbia University. She was not ashamed to claim her identity and used it to her own creative advantages. Too frequently, however, some Black men attempt to rule by fear those Black women who are more ally than enemy."[62]. While there, she forged friendships with May Ayim, Ika Hgel-Marshall, Helga Emde, and other Black German feminists that would last until her death. Carriacou is a small Grenadine island where her mother was born. Lorde criticized privileged peoples habit of burdening the oppressed with the responsibility to teach the oppressors their mistakes, which she considered a constant drain of energy.. She was a lesbian and navigated spaces interlocking her womanhood, gayness and blackness in ways that trumped white feminism, predominantly white gay spaces and toxic black male masculinity. Lorde replied with both critiques and hope:[71]. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. Lorde denounces the concept of having to choose a superior and an inferior when comparing two things. In the late 1980s, she also helped establish Sisterhood in Support of Sisters (SISA) in South Africa to benefit black women who were affected by apartheid and other forms of injustice. [76], Lorde was briefly romantically involved with the sculptor and painter Mildred Thompson after meeting her in Nigeria at the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77). It meant being really invisible. Lorde argues that a mythical norm is what all bodies should be. Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. "[34] Her refusal to be placed in a particular category, whether social or literary, was characteristic of her determination to come across as an individual rather than a stereotype. Lorde describes the inherent problems within society by saying, "racism, the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance. She had two older sisters, Phyllis and Helen. The archives of Audre Lorde are located across various repositories in the United States and Germany. And when I couldnt find the poems to express the things I was feeling, thats when I started writing poetry.. She decided to share such a deeply personal story partly out of a sense of duty to break the silence surrounding breast cancer. [9][39] In both works, Lorde deals with Western notions of illness, disability, treatment, cancer and sexuality, and physical beauty and prosthesis, as well as themes of death, fear of mortality, survival, emotional healing, and inner power. Lorde married attorney Edwin Rollins, who was a white, bisexual man, in 1962. Cuba 1757 Piso:6 Dpto:b, 1426 Autonomous City of Buenos Aires - Argentina At Columbia, she met Edwin Rollins, whom she married in 1962. [17] The narrative deals with the evolution of Lorde's sexuality and self-awareness. [61] Lorde insists that the fight between black women and men must end to end racist politics. In Broeck, Sabine; Bolaki, Stella. They had 2 children, Elizabeth and Jonathan. Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, 19841992 by Dagmar Schultz. [38], The Cancer Journals (1980) and A Burst of Light (1988) both use non-fiction prose, including essays and journal entries, to bear witness to, explore, and reflect on Lorde's diagnosis, treatment, recovery from breast cancer, and ultimately fatal recurrence with liver metastases. Lordes passion for reading began at the New York Public Librarys 135th Street Branchsince relocated and renamed the Countee Cullen Branchwhere childrens librarian Augusta Baker read her stories and then taught her how to read, with the help of Lorde's mother. They discussed whether the Cuban revolution had truly changed racism and the status of lesbians and gays there. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. "[66], In The Cancer Journals she wrote "If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." In an African naming ceremony before her death, she took the name Gamba Adisa, which means "Warrior: She Who Makes Her Meaning Known.. Her book of poems, Cables to Rage, came out of her time and experiences at Tougaloo. Lorde emphasizes that "the transformation of silence into language and action is a self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger. "[52] She explains how patriarchal society has misnamed it and used it against women, causing women to fear it. Lorde and Clayton lived together on Staten Island and were together for 21 years. She wants her difference acknowledged but not judged; she does not want to be subsumed into the one general category of 'woman. Lorde was also a professor of English at John Jay College and Hunter College, where she held the prestigious post of Thomas Hunter Chair of Literature. She felt she was not accepted because she "was both crazy and queer but [they thought] I would grow out of it all. The Audre Lorde Award is an annual literary award presented by Publishing Triangle to honor works of lesbian poetry, first presented in 2001. It meant being doubly invisible as a Black feminist woman and it meant being triply invisible as a Black lesbian and feminist". Edwin was a gay man and Audre was a lesbian. Also in Sister Outsider is a short essay, "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action". In 1978, Lorde was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy of her right breast. In 1977, Lorde became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). Psychologically, people have been trained to react to discontentment by ignoring it. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. Gerund, Katharina (2015). [77], Lorde was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1978 and underwent a mastectomy. In Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference, Lorde emphasizes the importance of educating others. It inspired them to take charge of their identities and discover who they are outside of the labels put on them by society. They lived there from 1972 until 1987 [PDF]. Lorde's professional career as a writer began in earnest in 1968 with the publication of her first Lorde was born in New York City on February 18, 1934 to Caribbean immigrants. While writers like Amiri Baraka and Ishmael Reed utilized African cosmology in a way that "furnished a repertoire of bold male gods capable of forging and defending an aboriginal Black universe," in Lorde's writing "that warrior ethos is transferred to a female vanguard capable equally of force and fertility. It wasnt the only time Lorde chose a name for herself. According to Lorde's essay "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference", "the need for unity is often misnamed as a need for homogeneity." Lorde lived with liver cancer for the next several years, and died from the disease on November 17, 1992, at age 58. "Today we march," she said, "lesbians and gay men and our children, standing in our own names together with all our struggling sisters and brothers here and around the world, in the Middle East, in Central America, in the Caribbean and South Africa, sharing our commitment to work for a joint livable future. Lorde identified issues of race, class, age and ageism, sex and sexuality and, later in her life, chronic illness and disability; the latter becoming more prominent in her later years as she lived with cancer. She had a brief marriage to attorney Edwin Rollins. In I Am Your Sister, she urged activists to take responsibility for learning this, even if it meant self-teaching, "which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. Audre Lorde was a feminist, writer, librarian and civil rights activist born in New York to Caribbean immigrants on February 18 1934. Audre Lorde: her birthday, what she did before fame, her family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. [27][28] Instead of fighting systemic issues through violence, Lorde thought that language was a powerful form of resistance and encouraged the women of Germany to speak up instead of fight back. She embraced the shared sisterhood as black women writers. After separating from her husband, Edwin Rollins, Lorde moved with their two children and her new partner, Frances Clayton, to 207 St. Pauls Avenue on Staten Island. ", Nominated for the National Book Award for poetry in 1973, From a Land Where Other People Live (Broadside Press) shows Lorde's personal struggles with identity and anger at social injustice. In the journal "Anger Among Allies: Audre Lorde's 1981 Keynote Admonishing the National Women's Studies Association", it is stated that her speech contributed to communication with scholars' understanding of human biases. Lorde eventually became a librarian herself, earning a masters degree in library science from Columbia University in 1961. We know that when we join hands across the table of our difference, our diversity gives us great power. She married attorney Edwin Rollins in 1962. Through poems like Coal, essays like The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House, and memoirs like Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde became one of the mid-20th centurys most radically honest voices and important activists. [16], During her time in Mississippi in 1968, she met Frances Clayton, a white lesbian and professor of psychology who became her romantic partner until 1989. While attending New Yorks Hunter High School, Lorde got involved with the schools literary magazine, Argus. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions . 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