Audrey Lorde's Biography and Background (55-56)

When was Audrey Lorde born?

1934

What is Audrey Lorde’s middle name?

Geraldine

Audrey Lorde’s parents are of what nationality?

Grenadian

What roles did Audrey Lorde have throughout her career?

Essayist, activist, poet, librarian, and teacher

What was Audrey Lorde always committed to even though she had different roles in her career?

Uplifting the experiences of marginalized women

What specific groups of woman was Audrey Lorde always trying to uplift specifically?

Queer and black women

What is Audrey Lorde most famous for?

“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name,” “The Black Unicorn,” “Sister Outsider,” “A Burst of Light,” and “The Cancer Journals”

When was Audrey Lorde’s biomythography published?

1982

What was Audrey Lorde’s biomythography called?

“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name”

What genre was Lorde’s “The Cancer Journals?”

A Breast Cancer memoir

When did Lorde die?

1992

When was Lorde named poet laurette?

1991 (year before her death)

What state was Lorde named the Poet laurette of?

New York

Lorde spent her entire life testifying to what aspect of instutitions and individuals?

How they often try to silence the rage, passion, and joy of black women

“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” is of what genre?

Biomythography

What genre is “The Black Unicorn"?”

Poetry collection

When was “The Black Unicorn” made?

1978

What genre is “Sister Outsider?”

Essay collections

When was “Sister Outsider” made?

1984

When was “A burst of Light” made?

1988

What genre is “A burst of light”

Essay collection

When was “The Cancer Journals” made?

1980

Audre Lorde’s recognition as NY’s Poet Laureate is a croiwning a achievement for a writer who spent a lifetime doing what?

Testifying to how often institutions and individuals try to silence the rage, passion and joy of black women

Audre Lorde believed that at times what institution among others silenced Black women?

The feminist movement (AT TIMES)

Audre Lorde believed that institutions often silenced the _________, _________, and ______ of black women

Rage, passion, and joy

Who is noted for photographing Audre Lorde?

Elsa Dorfman

Who did Audre Lorde meetup with in a waiting workshop in Austin, Texas?

Meridel Le Suer and Adrienne Rich

When was the writing workshop where Audre Lorde meetup with Meridel Le Sueur and Adrienne Rich?

Austin, Texas

When was the Austin, texas writing workshop?

1980

Lorde frequently wrote about what?

Transformative power and mutual intimacy

What types of intimacy did Audre Lorde occasionally mean in her works? What was she mainly interested in?

Physical and sexual intimacy; Mainly interested in exploring how strong, vulnerable, deeply emotional connections between friends and allies could serve as the foundations for transformative social movements

What is Audre Lorde's most famous essay?

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”

What does Audre Lorde write in her most famous essay which serves to show her main interest in her writing?

“Only within the interdependency of different strengths acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where they are no charters.”

Lorde believed that pursuit of a transformed “_____ ________ ____ __ ________” required what?

Where there are no charters; a commitment to cooperative forms of intimacy, but also a recognition of racial, sexual, and economic diversity. Needed t recognize the ways that the world isn’t experienced uniformly by all people. (Like 4th of July)

Audre Lorde believed building community couldn’t involve what?

A “shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist”

Why does Lorde's perspective believe include the belief that difference matters?

Because it makes new connections possible

Lorde illustrated through her work that productively _________ what _________ and what __________ doesn’t fracture _________ but _________ it

acknowledging; connects; distinguishes;solidarity; strengthens