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3.12k reviews for:
Sister Outsider - Essais et propos sur la poésie, l'érotisme, le racisme, le sexisme...
Audre Lorde
4.59 AVERAGE
3.12k reviews for:
Sister Outsider - Essais et propos sur la poésie, l'érotisme, le racisme, le sexisme...
Audre Lorde
4.59 AVERAGE
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informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War
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God, how I wish Audre Lorde were still here to give us some guidance through these times. We need more voices like hers working to dismantle systems of oppression today. Though, unfortunately, her words are still relevant today.
I haven’t been super motivated to read nonfiction lately because I’m trying to avoid falling further into despair regarding the state of the world, but I am very glad to have read Sister Outsider.
I haven’t been super motivated to read nonfiction lately because I’m trying to avoid falling further into despair regarding the state of the world, but I am very glad to have read Sister Outsider.
had basically what Your Silence Will Not Save You had but I liked everything in Your Silence Will Not Save you and was planning to reread so it was still worthwile and just as good
I don’t usually write reviews but I felt like my three star rating to this much beloved collection warranted some justification.
I really wanted to fall in love with this book, considering I stand for what it seeks to convey, but found it really hard to deeply connect with it. Beautiful prose and strong, admirable thoughts and opinions but gets repetitive (which is fair considering it’s a collection of separately written essays for varied occasions). That being said, it is a very valuable resource for anyone hoping to understand intersectionality better. Audre’s thinking is phenomenal. Perhaps my mistake was in that i approached it expecting either a book full of personal experiences that would educate me about what it is like to be a ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’ or a theoretical handbook on intersectionality - both of which it simultaneously is and is not. So if this is your introduction to Audre Lorde (like it was for me) don’t go in expecting what i did.
I’m hoping to re read this in the future and loving it as much as I wanted to.
I really wanted to fall in love with this book, considering I stand for what it seeks to convey, but found it really hard to deeply connect with it. Beautiful prose and strong, admirable thoughts and opinions but gets repetitive (which is fair considering it’s a collection of separately written essays for varied occasions). That being said, it is a very valuable resource for anyone hoping to understand intersectionality better. Audre’s thinking is phenomenal. Perhaps my mistake was in that i approached it expecting either a book full of personal experiences that would educate me about what it is like to be a ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’ or a theoretical handbook on intersectionality - both of which it simultaneously is and is not. So if this is your introduction to Audre Lorde (like it was for me) don’t go in expecting what i did.
I’m hoping to re read this in the future and loving it as much as I wanted to.
[4 stars]
Absolutely incredible. This is the first of Lorde's work that I have sat down and read and I feel horrible it took me this long. As in any compilation of an author's various works, some were better than other. None at all were bad, though, and each were valuable in some way. Just as relevant, important, and impactful that (I assume) it was at its release and a collection that I know I will come back to many times in the years ahead.
Absolutely incredible. This is the first of Lorde's work that I have sat down and read and I feel horrible it took me this long. As in any compilation of an author's various works, some were better than other. None at all were bad, though, and each were valuable in some way. Just as relevant, important, and impactful that (I assume) it was at its release and a collection that I know I will come back to many times in the years ahead.
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
The narrator ruined the book for me. It was hard to really capture the power behind the words when it sounded like it was being read by a robot.
challenging
hopeful
slow-paced