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Same handle on IG. Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of UNDROWNED and SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: THE ETERNAL LIFE OF AUDRE LORDE (image @harmeetrehal )
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“Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre’s fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents, to reach you, wherever you are.”
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Recovered footage of God putting the sun into the sky.💜
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When you punish students for their love & compassion you teach them how powerful compassion truly is. You admit to them that you govern on a premise that cannot withstand love. Love prevails. We’re witnessing the soul growth of a generation. They deserve our care & respect.💜
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Y’all I just submitted my full biography of Audre Lorde to
@fsgbooks
Should be in your hands August 2024!
Can’t wait to celebrate? NYC please join us in honoring Audre Lorde at the Guggenheim next month. Thank you for gathering us Ama Codjoe 💜💜💜💜💜
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Someone asked for my thoughts on the orca uprising: I said 💜 what the marine biologists are framing as revenge based on one traumatic experience may be a piece of a larger mobilization towards balance. The harm boats pose to marine mammals is not a set of isolated incidents…
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I was going to say because the ink is dry & the announcement is up, but may the ink never dry up. May they never see us coming.
I’m excited to be the newest series editor for the Writing Matters! series
@DukePress
Send me your strangest brilliance!
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Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau we surround your name in love. We honor your bravery, your beauty, your wisdom which cannot be stolen. You live in our broken, open, growing hearts. You live. 😭💜🙏🏽
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When Audre Lorde taught at City College she supported student strikes, building takeovers, teach-ins and the protests that led to Open Admissions in 1970. To students & faculty at
#UCSC
and
#Syracuse
facing administrative retaliation today, the Lorde is with you.
#dayofourlorde
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We will never live in a world without you. I’m one of the lucky ones who never has. I’m one of the grateful ones who never could. 💜
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Today we bring Audre Lorde’s words and images with us into the streets to strengthen us as we protest injustice. In the 1960s Audre brought her children into the streets w/ her, with packed lunches and wet cloths in bags in case of teargas.
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Toni Cade Bambara’s words are always helpful. Her retelling of Goldilocks as a story of American plunder masquerading as innocence is especially relevant this week. At the Library of Congress no less. Listen here:
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"By survival I do not mean mere existence...but an active quality of living. Survival means living with focus."
-Audre Lorde 1984
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“I was not born to be insubstantial.” -Audre Lorde
in a 1986 letter to Pat Parker celebrating the fact that she gained 10 pounds while fighting cancer.
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“I am who I am, doing what I came to do.” -Audre Lorde
On my birthday
@publisherswkly
announced that my biography of the ETERNAL LIFE of Audre Lorde will be published by
@fsgbooks
Thank you Audre Lorde. We need you more than ever.
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Rereading Faith Ringgold’s memoir “we flew over the bridge” today. I am thinking about the story she shares of installing her famous mural for the Women’s House of Detention in 1972…
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“I must become the action of my fate.” -June Jordan 💜
Happy Birthday! We love you!
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Today is Audre Lorde’s 90th Birthday!!!!💜💜💜 May we rejoice that though she died at age 58, she still lives in our hearts and in our movements! Let’s dance!!
"How hard it is to sleep
in the middle of life..."
-Audre Lorde "The Electric Slide Boogie" in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934 and we are celebrating!!!!! I'm
@alexispauline
and I know is that Audre believed in partying as praxis.
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Annual reminder that in 1985 Audre Lorde wrote “I’m going to go out like a f**king meteor” in her journal in response to a liver cancer diagnosis. Her doctors gave her 6 months. Instead she died on this day. In 1992. At the peak of the Leonids meteor shower.💜💫
#keepyourword
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Y’all are so sweet to create a whole trending topic about
#spill
so folks will know about my first book! What a generative way to use Twitter while it falls apart.
🤣🤷🏾♀️
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“They’re not academic; they’re a piece of my life-saving equipment.”
-Audre Lorde describing her own prose writings in 1982
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Wait! Now I’m 40 and over! Happy Lesbian Visibility Week!💜 Mermaid Edition!
Too many queer youth say they don’t see elders to give them hope. Please, for
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
, I’m calling lesbians age 40 and over. Reply or quote with a pic/vid to show our youth they have generations past, present, and well into the future🧡🩷🤍❤️💜
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In the 1960s Audre Lorde taught briefly at Lehman College. She created one of the first ever courses on systemic racism and she created it for a cohort of mostly white teachers who were about enter the majority student of color schools of New York City.
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The NEA funded Audre Lorde as Poet-in-Residence at Tougaloo & she won the Literature Award. She also protested Jessie Helms’s attempt to exclude Black & LGBTQ artists from NEA funding. I’m honored to accept this fellowship in Audre’s audacious legacy. 💫
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Wear it on my chest. Carry you in my heart. I am w/ the students at Columbia University who are making their love and solidarity impossible to ignore. 💜🍉 As an alum who participated in direct action I affirm: You deserve safety, respect and a world worthy of your vision.
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@CurlyProfessor
So messed up. And as if her father wouldn’t need/take/deserve time to think and process too? We deserve humane healthcare. I’m sorry this happened to your family and happens daily in so many ways.
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During the Combahee Uprising of 1863 over 750 enslaved Africans freed themselves.
They burned down 32 plantation buildings.
Combahee Throughline is a commemorative space of study, meditation and personal and collective liberation. Starts June 1st.
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Gratefully born into a world where these books existed. And now Feminist Studies is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of This Bridge Called My Back & But Some of Us Are Brave!!!! Send me your creative work inspired by these two books at creative
@feministstudies
.org by June 1st!!!
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“Writing and reading are not all that distinct for a writer. Both exercises require being alert and ready for unaccountable beauty…”
-Toni Morrison
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I haven't hosted an online writing workshop in a while but June Jordan's birthday is coming up. (Incidentally she is the poet who wrote the best EVER diss poem to Clarence and Virginia Thomas). Yup. Come write through this rage.
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The university does not intend to love me. The university does not know how to love me. The university, in fact, does not love me. But the universe does." -APG (2012)
Join us for our next reflective writing workshop:
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“I think it’s one of the hardest things in the world to somehow make sure that the ones you love receive your care for them as physical information, as definite as raindrops hitting your palm. Like when you hold your hand out to check if it’s raining and it is.” - Helen Oyeyemi
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Love is the work of letting your life be a reminder to the people of how powerful we are. Always have been. Always will be. Thank you for living your power and loving us well. Rest in the resplendence of our gratitude.
#ChadwickBoseman
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Started my day meditating to New Blue Sun. Grateful always to one of my first models for how our creativity open us up to infinite possibility. Also did you know I wrote a college thesis on Outkast?
#Andre3000
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“black feminisms, as a repertoire of concepts, practices, & alignments, is progressive in outlook and dedicated to the view that sustainable life systems must be available to everyone; it also stands up for the survival of this planet.” -Hortense Spillers
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“Though the world forgets me
I will say YES
and NO.”
-June Jordan
All love to Naomi Osaka. Sovereign.
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I'm realizing that people know less about Harriet Tubman than I thought. And as an educator, all I can do is take responsibility. We are reopening our Combahee Throughline Course for the week. Spread the word.
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Tears of gratitude that Sundiata Acoli is on his way home to his daughter and grandchildren. My father prayed for his freedom and didn’t live to see it. I celebrate in multitude. I celebrate in chorus.💜
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Black Feminist Film School hosted a workshop about ancestral listening around the dinner table based on that iconic scene in The Color Purple.
Re-sharing for those of you who are about to be doing some truthtelling around a family table very soon:
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Wow. One of the first things I did when I surrendered to writing a biography was to reread Conde's work on biography as fiction and fiction as biography. Endless gratitude to this great force of creativity and rigor. <3
We’re deeply saddened to hear that Maryse Conde has died. The Grande Dame of Caribbean literature, she was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize twice, in 2015 and 2023, and leaves behind an extraordinary body of work. We send our heartfelt condolences to her family.
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I approve this use of documentary footage of my arrival into a PhD program.😂
NO WORDS 😩🤣 A toddler seemed to wonder what she had gotten herself into as she stood in a room full of screaming kids on her first day of day care in Syracuse, New York.
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Study these eyes. This mouth. These hands. This is what it looks like to love a community with your whole being. To fight for love every day. We love you Urvashi Vaid. We are the beneficiaries. The least we can do to honor your memory is to recognize love when we see it.
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In the last years of her life Audre Lorde protested off-shore drilling, met with indigenous feminists all over the world and told everyone who would listen that our species needed to repair our relationship with this planet, which she called “this covenant upon which we live.”
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It’s my birthday! Here’s to the most open hearted year yet!💜
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So excited to be part of the virtual Critical Caribbean Symposium this year honoring Sylvia Wynter at University of the Bahamas! Register here:
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Audre Lorde circa the age she became a student activist for peace starting with activism against nuclear war (the technology for which was invented in her neighborhood and at Columbia-her grad school).
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How to celebrate
#IdaBWells
Day which is also
@assatashakur
Day?
1. Tell the truth.
2. Believe we can be free.
Repeat.
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World-renowned painter Alma Thomas’s mother survived a lynch mob while she was pregnant. This is an essay about her love for her students. And my decision to belatedly become one of them.💜
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I have been selected as a National Humanities Center fellow! I didn’t even see this as an option, but an intergenerational community of Black feminists within and beyond the academy MADE IT SO! Excited to spend the next academic year here IN DURHAM.
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It is systemic. I think of this mother orca as…kin with Nanny of the Maroons, Mama Tingo, Harriet Tubman and many unnamed revolutionary mother teachers of many species.💜
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My six year old niece just showed me an anthology in which she is included as a published author. Her story is about a girl who finds a portal into space and learns how constellations are born. I will be unavailable for the rest of the day.
#proudauntie
😭💜💫
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Assata’s crying toddler and dreaming grandmother told her she could be free. A community made it so at great risk and sacrifice. Today we celebrate the anniversary of her freedom, listening to the cries of the youngest among us & the dreams of our elders & acting with love.
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Y’all this only happens if people say good things about you behind your back. Love to each of you who carry my name in your chest. Bring me with you wherever you go. That’s our poetry.💜
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Because we are witnessing a genocide that targets children. Because the US is about to actively celebrate settler colonial genocide as a family holiday. Our scale of peace must become intergenerational. Now.
Once again I turn to the Lorde. Join us:
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May my life be a sanctuary for Black trans women. May my breath be a hymn praising Black trans women. May this community be a place where Black trans women are abundantly at home. Let the planet love herself.
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When I look at the folks who have held this prize over the last ten years….🥲🤯
Also it feels good to be officially funded by gay love.
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It’s because of you that
@harpersbazaarus
chose Heat is Not a Metaphor as a Sunday long read and
@lithub
highlighted it as the best of the literary internet.
Thank you for your listening and your love. May we tune in to what our whale kin are teaching
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Pat Parker! A member of the Black Panther Party, a Black Lesbian Feminist Poet, a softball champ and chosen lil sis of Audre Lorde.
In celebration of her birthday (1/20) we are sharing our Black Feminist Breathing Meditation in her honor.
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Had to fill out my gender identity on a form and figured I’d tell y’all too: QUEER BLACK FEMME MULTITUDE (she/they) 💜✊🏾🖤
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I just keep thinking about the letter of gratitude that Bob Moses sent to Fannie Lou Hamer’s family in 1977 when she passed. Blessed are the well-mentored. Abundant is the intergenerational movement. Love to all who love across lifetimes. 💜🙏🏽💜
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Y’all the Windham Campbell prize is a big deal but also I have MY OWN DUKE PRESS sale!????!??? Half-price for a week y’all. Go provoke a new printing!💜
To celebrate her winning the
@WindhamCampbell
prize, we are pleased to offer a 50% discount through Friday, August 25, on all three of
@alexispauline
's book with coupon GUMBSF23.
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Whatever happens Hortense Spillers and I will be in conversation next Tuesday at
@Cornell
. Free registration at this link.💜
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I’m so honored to be the keynote speaker for this 90th Birthday Party for beloved Audre Lorde at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh next Sunday. Thank you Ada Gay Griffin & Bekezela Mguni!!!💜💜💜
See y’all soon!
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Black feminism is my religion. The daily experience of Black feminist love is my proof of the divine. As my teacher Dr. Karla Holloway said recently “I believe in us.” Here is my faith.
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Killjoy joy. When our love breaks the lie of institutional safety. So excited for the world to have this book soon
@SaraNAhmed
!!!!! Honored that Undrowned is one of your recommended texts. Grateful for you always!!!😍😍😍😍😍
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Happy Toni Cade Bambara Day! Here is a poem I wrote in her honor years ago.
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First nephew night w/ the 14 yr old twins since…
Me: So what music are you into now?
Twins: Old school. Yeah soul classics…
Me: Cool! Me too (cues up Aretha)
Twins: Yeah like Kanye in the 2000s..
Me:
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“the beauty of the black ordinary, the beauty that resides in and animates the determination to live free.” -Saidiya Hartman (I love the Audre Lorde references throughout)
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It is a testament to Audre Lorde’s transnational impact & relevance that Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde will be published on two sides of the Atlantic AT THE SAME TIME! Here she is in the
@PenguinUKBooks
catalog. W/ Jimmy! UK fam let’s scheme!💜
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Pretending I was there. Grateful for this gorgeous color photo of some of the original Kitchen Table Press folks by
@jebmedia
in
@wmn_zine
#2
Left to right
@TheBarbaraSmith
, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Hattie Gossett. 💜to
@FJasmineG
who first told me about KTP when I was 19.
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god
let every nameplate
necklace
be a bulletproof forcefield
god
let every nameplate
necklace
be a shield for her
-from Melting Gold (my prayer poem for Ma'khia Bryant and so many more)
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I’m so excited to share “Be a Mystery”: Black Feminist Thought a special issue of Feminist Studies that I got to co-edit with the divine @
You can read the whole preface and learn more at
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Beloveds. We don’t even have a book cover yet and we haven’t sent out galleys and NEVERTHELESS, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is on
@lithub
‘s list of 2024’s most anticipated books!!!!
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Dorothy Roberts says this book is “an essential guide for all abolitionists,” so you know what to do. It was a joy to write the opening chapter “Learning to Listen.” I felt like Harriet Tubman spoke it to me at the shoreline.
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My four year old niece called me yesterday. No “hello”. She just got right into it:
“What do the Zapatistas do?”
#priorities
#proudauntie
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We love you Audre! May we create a planetary relation of homefulness instead of war. Please join me in honoring Audre Lorde during her birthday week and always. 💜
"Gloria has a permit
to change the earth..."
-Audre Lorde, "Building" in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
I'm
@alexispauline
and as we continue to celebrate poet Audre Lorde's birthday week, I present to you Audre Finds Home: A Love Story
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Writing about Audre Lorde, grief, poetry, radio frequencies and the power of the small change was medicine for me. I’m so honored to be a part of this treasure. Grateful to these editor-magic-women for including me in the miracle.
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@LFB27
My rage is with your rage. My love is with your love. This is infuriating and unacceptable. So much love to you and your sweet baby genius daughter. This never should have happened. We deserve a loving world where we are seen and honored and respected.
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“this is why you can never see god in yourself. you are damned by your hatred of fat black women. and no part of you could ever live without them. this is why the universe (huge, black, unfolding, expansive) shakes and shakes her head. you fools.” - M Archive
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Peace is a study and a practice. Relevant on every scale. Possible on every scale. I commit to cultivating peace.
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“All over the world people of the earth are saying: you took my land, you abused it, you didn’t pay for it. Give it back.“
-Audre Lorde 1990, I Am Your Sister Cele-conference
Tonight 6:30pm eastern.
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So much love. This is what I (an abolitionist) mean when I say, sing and scream
#BreonnaTaylor
‘s name.
I mean that I refuse to kill the part of myself and the part of you that is called by this song, claimed by this kinship, that is vulnerable and alive because of this love.
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Ayyyyyyy!!!!!!💜💜💜💜💜💜
We are honored and overjoyed to announce that
@alexispauline
is a 2022 Whiting Award winner in nonfiction! Her phenomenal nonfiction book, UNDROWNED: BLACK FEMINIST LESSONS FROM MARINE MAMMALS (
@AKPressDistro
, 2020), is available to order:
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"I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP."
Next week we will be writing with June Jordan's ethic of revolutionary love:
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“so where is true history written
except in the poems?” -Audre Lorde
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Beloveds! I’m really excited to be talking with THE
@aunjanuejlt
today about her starring role in the new film ORIGIN today over at
@blackfeministfilmschool
on IG. Follow us over there to watch the live at 2pm EST/11am PST!💜💜💜
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Maybe we should start to call any naturally occurring miracles (rainbows, meteor showers, whale sightings, rivers, Spring) by a collective name: Semenya. We love you Caster Semenya. Exactly as you are. May we be exactly who you inspire us to be.
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That’s Hattie Gossett looking at Audre Lorde.💜
Hattie had a bad fall and we are fundraising to support her recovery. Please join me in making an offering of material gratitude if the writing of women of color has made your life more beautiful.
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I’m joyfully focused on writing a biography of Audre Lorde, a Black poet born in Feb. In celebration, I’m not available for any bookings this Black History Month.
You can learn about poetry, Black feminism, abolition and civil rights from me here tho:
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In my dream, land acknowledgments were legally binding.
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“And so I continue: a Black woman who would be an agent for change, an active member of the hoped-for apocalypse.”
June Jordan “Notes of a Barnard Dropout” 1975
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$14billion? 🤯😭 In her final public speech accepting the title of New York State Poet Laureate, hair stolen by chemo Audre Lorde raised her voice to vehemently criticize US weapons spending. We have something to learn about POWER. See you Monday.
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