The anthology Sister Outsider brings together for the first time key essays and speeches by Black, feminist, lesbian poet and activist Audre Lorde. Her work is considered an important part of the development of contemporary feminist theory and negotiates different social categories of difference. The 15 selected texts in the book, some of which are published here for the first time, discuss common experiences of sexism, racism, ageism, heterosexism, and class as starting points for emancipatory action and for change.
Lorde’s seminal lyrics can be described in her own words as an appeal: “[…]never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is.”
Audre Lorde/Cheryl Clarke 2013: Sister Outsider. Essays and Speeches. (The Crossing Press Feminist Series). Berkeley, CA.