Audre Lourde (1934-1992)

Audre Lorde, American writer/educator/ philosopher/poet /essayist/activist is an icon for all those who value her contributions to civil rights, and the feminist, Black cultural and LGBTQIA+ movements. Lorde’s writings sing out for social and racial justice for all and provide exceptional musings on her experience as a Black woman, mother, cancer survivor with chronic illness, lesbian and community leader. She believed that all these factors were fundamental to her experience and her prose, poetry and public life foster important discussions about gender, race and sexuality in the context of social justice. Married to a gay man for several years with whom she had two children, she found her life partner in Black feminist pioneer Gloria Joseph, an acclaimed Crusian-American academic, writer and activist.