Audre Lorde Project

In the poem “Now that I Am Forever with Child” Audre Lorde writes of the mother in the process of giving birth to her child. Audre Lorde is in a hospital getting help from the community to be able to “bore” her child. She is not able to deliver her child without the support from her community– doctors, nurses, family– they are all needed because each one play a different role in society and each one can touch different hearts. This could be seen as a hierarchy of doctors in a higher social class

When I was younger, I used to talk in Pushto; with my mother, father, sister and, basically my whole entire family. Because my family was my life, they were all I’ve ever known. I was five years old when I started going to school, and obviously, as a naive young child, I assumed that everyone talked - or was- exactly like me. Thus, I would talk to classmates in my language, and they’d stare or generally be confused. Correspondingly, Many of them, in their childhood innocence, would respond back in

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Book review & Reaction “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” by Audre Lorde is often seen as one of the most influential pieces of writing in terms of Black Feminism as well as LGBTQ community. Though it was intended as an autobiography, it covers a wide range of numerous topics, allowing the author to reflect on them from the perspective of her life. The book is filled with numerous details that may seem to be trivial, yet they represent an important aspect of

LORDE AUDRE POETRY During our poem unit we have studied bunch of poetries written by different talented poets. I was particularly fascinated reading Aurde Lorde poems. Audre Lorde is an African-American feminist and poet. Her passion and enthusiasm bring a different appeal while reading her poems. Reading her poems, I found on her a passion, sincerity, depth of spirit, and above all, a revolutionary spirit targeting mostly on social issues such as racism, sexism, or homophobia

the biomythography, Zami, by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses specific scenes to highlight arguments running throughout the text. The epilogue is Lorde's reflection on her life and emphasizes many of her struggles and ideals about life. Lorde uses this final place in the book to show the reader how her journey throughout life gave her the ability to define a home. This passage emphasizes that Lorde faced many hardships, especially the challenges of self-integration. Lorde, was a minority in every group

Audre Lorde is an unbelievable human being and her responses to other feminists regarding such issues were well argued and came from such an intelligent and intuitive human being who simply wanted to be heard and respected. I think that her openness about her hostility with other black women is such a strong admission, and her inner poetess is strongest at that time. She overlooked the world of men very well, except to mention them only in relation to women's suffering, and in relation to themselves

Audre Lorde, author of the autobiography The Cancer Journals, reiterates her experience of having breast cancer and her decision to have a mastectomy through a series of journal entries. Throughout these entries, she expresses a range of emotions all across the board. This is not just to describe her battle with breast cancer, but to also highlight how her various identities intersect with her experience. Lorde looks to her journal to channel her fear of breast cancer in order to power through the

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” Audre Lorde used her words to inspire. The basic human rights for certain groups of people have been overlooked for decades with no justice being served. For example, people of color have been degraded through slavery and name calling for hundreds of years, and people that like the same sex have been targeted and attacked by people who disagree with their ways

The Fourth of July Audre Lorde was born in 1934 to Caribbean immigrant parents. Lorde was raised in Harlem with her sister, Phyllis and she was considered legally blind and had speech difficulties until the age four. She grew up to be a poet, she had received a National Endowment award for her work. In this essay, “The Fourth of July” she wrote how racism affected her life in a negative way at the age of 14. The message and tone of this story is deep and fury. She states details from her trip

In Audre Lorde’s autobiography “The Fourth of July”, Lorde unleashes her anger towards American society. Triggered by her frustration of being a second-class citizen, Lorde rebukes white society’s refusal to accept African Americans as their equals. The author uses irony to contrast her lack of freedom as a young black teenager with the freedoms given to white society as a whole. Irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous