pickAn important work of auto-pathography detailing Lorde‘s experience with cancer and the politics around cancer care and management. Written in Lorde‘s typical flourish and cutting voice that awakens and educates all at once.
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pickAn important work of auto-pathography detailing Lorde‘s experience with cancer and the politics around cancer care and management. Written in Lorde‘s typical flourish and cutting voice that awakens and educates all at once.
Special arrival! I was introduced to both Virginia Woolf and Audre Lorde this year and couldn‘t believe my luck when I bumped into this unique collection from Dutch publisher HetMoet. 🙏🏻 It reprints Woolf‘s essay On Being Ill and Lorde‘s intro to The Cancer Journals with essays on illness from contemporary writers, some translated.
Hopefully I‘ll have thoughts (and links to read some of these pieces online?) worth sharing in a follow-up post.
pickAn extremely compelling collection of poems, essays and speeches that tackle themes of racism and feminism. It will make you emotional and engaged with multiple issues that you and the author possibly have in common. It‘s an incredibly empowering book that, especially in Lourde‘s writing, manages to grasp the honest and intellectual issues of society. Despite not being the primary audience for the book, the writing is incredibly inspiring.
More than ever, the past few years have exposed the racist policies and rhetoric that so many preach. The #AudreLorde statement is a reminder that we must embrace differences and continue striving to be antiracist. #Antiracism
