Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
If you care about feminism, social justice, or making the world a better place in any way at all, you must read this book. Sister Outsider shook me to my core. Audre Lorde's brilliant, powerful, love-filled writing literally brought me to tears in a local Panera Bread. In this stunning collection of essays and speeches, she addresses the sheer necessity of intersectional feminism and supporting women of color, the importance of using our voices to speak up against injustice, the horrors
Sister Outsider was a really fantastic introduction to Audre Lorde for me, though its episodic nature isn't my favorite way to digest nonfiction and I think I would have preferred to stay on track with any one of these essays for a hundred pages rather than to bounce around from topic to topic the way this collection is structured (though all pieces are obviously interconnected to an extent). But still, this is a sharp and insightful and seminal work that I'd recommend.
This book will be my guiding light for years to come. I am in awe of Audre and so thankful to have access to her words. This book is completely highlighted and loved on, and I can't wait to return to this book during different seasons of my life and see what additional knowledge I can gain.
Brilliant, of course.
What beautiful prose and so relevant. I've heard Audre Lorde quotes batted around all over the place and it was wonderful to read them in context. Unlike Lorde, I prefer prose to poetry (at least at this point in my life) so I really appreciated a poet talking about politics and life. Her essay on absorbing the hatred of racism as a child was really moving and one that I will return to.
Audre Lorde is astonishing! Her voice was able to penetrate my soul and wake up a part of me that I never knew existed. My favorite essay is "Poetry is Not a Luxury." Lorde proclaims that within our spirit--strength and creativeness are hidden. Its continuous flow is being interrupted by the fear of speaking from your heart. Finding a way to channel your thoughts are essential to personal growth. Lorde also reminded me of Sigmond Freud's theory pertaining the levels of human consciousness. It is
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Original Title: | Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches |
ISBN: | 0895941414 (ISBN13: 9780895941411) |
Edition Language: | English |
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A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—difference according to sex, race, and economic status. The title Sister Outsider finds its source in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn (1978). These poems and the essays in Sister Outsider stress Lorde's oft-stated theme of continuity, particularly of the geographical and intellectual link between Dahomey, Africa, and her emerging self.Describe Containing Books Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Title | : | Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches |
Author | : | Audre Lorde |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 190 pages |
Published | : | June 1st 1984 by Crossing Press |
Categories | : | Feminism. Nonfiction. Writing. Essays |
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Ratings: 4.5 From 14710 Users | 874 ReviewsNotice Containing Books Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Oh, this book. Such a brilliant collection of essays, I won't even try to write a proper review. I'll just leave a quote from the essay The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism. This quote sums up what feminism is all about for me. I am a lesbian woman of Color whose children eat regularly because I work in a university. If their full bellies make me fail to recognize my commonality with a woman of Color whose children do not eat because she cannot find work, or who has no children becauseIf you care about feminism, social justice, or making the world a better place in any way at all, you must read this book. Sister Outsider shook me to my core. Audre Lorde's brilliant, powerful, love-filled writing literally brought me to tears in a local Panera Bread. In this stunning collection of essays and speeches, she addresses the sheer necessity of intersectional feminism and supporting women of color, the importance of using our voices to speak up against injustice, the horrors
Sister Outsider was a really fantastic introduction to Audre Lorde for me, though its episodic nature isn't my favorite way to digest nonfiction and I think I would have preferred to stay on track with any one of these essays for a hundred pages rather than to bounce around from topic to topic the way this collection is structured (though all pieces are obviously interconnected to an extent). But still, this is a sharp and insightful and seminal work that I'd recommend.
This book will be my guiding light for years to come. I am in awe of Audre and so thankful to have access to her words. This book is completely highlighted and loved on, and I can't wait to return to this book during different seasons of my life and see what additional knowledge I can gain.
Brilliant, of course.
What beautiful prose and so relevant. I've heard Audre Lorde quotes batted around all over the place and it was wonderful to read them in context. Unlike Lorde, I prefer prose to poetry (at least at this point in my life) so I really appreciated a poet talking about politics and life. Her essay on absorbing the hatred of racism as a child was really moving and one that I will return to.
Audre Lorde is astonishing! Her voice was able to penetrate my soul and wake up a part of me that I never knew existed. My favorite essay is "Poetry is Not a Luxury." Lorde proclaims that within our spirit--strength and creativeness are hidden. Its continuous flow is being interrupted by the fear of speaking from your heart. Finding a way to channel your thoughts are essential to personal growth. Lorde also reminded me of Sigmond Freud's theory pertaining the levels of human consciousness. It is
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