Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-266) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : create your own fire : Audre Lorde and the tradition of black radical thought / Rudolph P. Byrd -- The transformation of silence into language and action -- Sexism : an American disease in blackface -- Sadomasochism : not about condemnation : an interview with Audre Lord / Susan Leigh Starr -- I am your sister : black women organizing across sexualities -- Apartheid U.S.A. -- Turning the beat around : lesbian parenting 1986 -- A burst of light : living with cancer -- Eva's man by Gayl Jones : a review -- Self-definition and my poetry -- Introduction : Movement in black by Pat Parker -- My words will be there -- Foreword to the English edition of Farbe bekennen : Afro-deutsche frauen auf den spuren ihrer geschichte -- Preface to a new edition of Need : A chorale for black woman voices -- Poet as teacher-human as poet-teacher as human -- Poetry makes something happen -- My mother's mortar -- Difference and survival : an address at Hunter College -- The first black feminist retreat : July 6, 1977 -- When will the ignorance end? : keynote speech at the National Third World Gay and Lesbian Conference, October 13, 1979 -- An address delivered as part of the "litany of commitment" at the March on Washington, August 27, 1983 -- Commencement address : Oberlin College, May 29, 1989 -- There is no hierarchy of oppression -- What is at stake in lesbian and gay publishing today : the Bill Whitehead Award ceremony, 1990 -- Is your hair still political? -- Audre Lord : my shero, my teacher, my sister friend / Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Audre's voice / Alice Walker -- Lorde : the imagination of justice / bell hooks -- Remembering Audre Lorde / Gloria I. Joseph -- Epilogue : bearing witness : the legacy of Audre Lorde / Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
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