Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: June’s Uses of Anger
We are in the middle of a revolution. My Black woman’s anger is here to signal a necessary sea change. Understand that all of our freedoms are bound up in one another.
audre lorde
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: May’s Burst of Light
“I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes — everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: April’s Arithmetics of Distance
This is dedicated to those who are just trying to make it through every day. It’s been gratifying on an almost cellular level to find that the queen mother Audre Lorde can so frequently speak to the times and places in which we find ourselves. Her final book of poetry, “The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance,” is no exception.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: March’s Poetry Is Not a Luxury
One of the biggest lessons of Audre Lorde’s work is the strength of coalitional politics. I need a movement that can hold my anger. I need a movement that can hold my contradictions. I shouldn’t have to qualify my rage when speaking out about injustice.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: February’s Revolutionary Hope
I’m pairing Audre Lorde’s 1984 conversation with James Baldwin and arguably her best-known speech, “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” in hopes of exploring how our power and freedom lie in embracing our differences as the source of our strength.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: January’s Uses of the Erotic
Introducing our new series: Year of Our (Audre) Lorde, a monthly analysis of works by queen mother Audre Lorde as they apply to our current political moment. First, how harnessing our erotic power can help us THRIVE!
33 Literary Books With Great Lesbian Sex Inside Them
Novels, memoirs, essay and short story collections that are really good and also have sex in them that involve two or more women! Wow!
Black Queer Resiliency Will Guide Us Through Black History Month
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
Line Breaks for Resistance: How Black Poetry Lets Us Rescue Ourselves
If Alice Walker once said “hard times require furious dancing,” then hard times call for reading poetry, particularly black poets. Follow zaynab’s journey in reconnecting with black poetry as a means of daily survival and understand why reading the work of black poets can enhance our collective understandings of what it means to cultivate and sustain resistance.
“Revival: Women and the Word” Provides A Balm For The Devastation Of This Country
“If you are devastated by the state of this country and you aren’t sure what to do about it, you will watch this film and feel differently. I mean that.”
Rebel Girls: This Is What A Lavender Menace Looks Like
By the time straight women of the second wave had caught up to the times, queer women had already f*cked up their movement — and built one all their own.
The Vagaries of Love: How Poetry and Queer Movements Give Each Other Names
For National Poetry Month, an ode to the queer poets who talk about their love, fight for justice, and helped me save myself.
Rebel Girls: 9 Badass Black Feminists and Their Books That Shook the World
These women changed feminism forever with their scholarship. Let’s vow to never forget their names.
The Speakeasy Book Club #1: Let’s Talk About “Sister Outsider”
“Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.”
10 Queer Feminist Icons You Can Be This Halloween
These costumes will make you look real smart and cool, even though you may have to keep describing who you are all night, but that’s OK.
The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!
The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.
100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost
This epic megapost is your glorious opportunity to meet more than 100 amazing black LGBT women who’ve made their mark over the last 150 years.
10 Novels & Memoirs By and About Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women
You should celebrate Black History Month by reading all of these books right now.
Why Does My Identity Require Turning SafeSearch On?: “Lesbians” vs. Pornography
Now that I’m older, it weirds me out that an internet search on lesbian + anything turns up with porn. Massive amounts of it. And most of the stuff that comes up is terrible. Why does the internet equate “lesbian” with “explicit sex”?
See The Fascinating Evolution of Cover Art From 12 Legendary Queer Books
Looking back at a century of cover designs from all over the world for beloved queer books like Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, The Color Purple, Annie on my Mind, Rubyfruit Jungle and more.