Audiobooks by Audre Lorde

A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

'Lorde's words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death.' — O, The Oprah Magazine Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to thoughts on lesbian sexuality and African-American identity in a straight white man's world, Lorde's voice remains enduringly relevant in today's political landscape. Those who practice and encourage social justice activism frequently quote her exhortation, 'Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.' In addition to the journal entries of 'A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,' this edition includes an interview, 'Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation,' and three essays, 'I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities,' 'Apartheid U.S.A.,' and 'Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986,' as well as a new Foreword by Sonia Sanchez. 'You don't read Audre Lorde, you feel her.' — Essence 'Lorde's timeless prose in this collection provides contemporary social justice warriors the language, strategies, and lessons around resistance, through the power of intersectionality, a Pan-African vision, and — ultimately — through the power of love and radical self-care.' — NBC News 'When I don't know what to do, I turn to the Lorde.' — Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bitch Media 'Whenever my mind is heavy with questions and my heart thirsts for nourishment, I turn to the writing of Audre Lorde. Every time I revisit the words of Audre Lorde, I marvel over how relevant they continue to be.' — AfterEllen.com 'The self-described black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture of prose, theory, poetry, and experience to interrogate oppressions and uplift marginalized communities. She was one of the first black feminists to target heteronormativity, and to encourage black feminists to expand their understanding of erotic pleasure. She amplified anti-oppression, even as breast cancer ravaged her ailing body.' — Evette Dionne, Bustle Magazine

Audre Lorde (Author), Robin Miles (Narrator)

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Sister Outsider

Brought to you by Penguin. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity, and includes her landmark piece 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. 'The truth of her writing is as necessary today as it's ever been' Guardian © Audre Lorde 1984 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Audre Lorde (Author), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Narrator)

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.

Audre Lorde (Author), Robin Eller (Narrator)

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