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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography by Audre Lorde

5 reviews

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.25

she, and i cannot stress this enough, just like me. fr. minus the dating white women. but the circumstances surrounding that and explanations? wow! she just like me! fr!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Ableism, Racial slurs, Child death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Abortion, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Self harm

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Fatphobia, Outing, Infidelity, and Animal death

waytoomanybooks's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

I’m so grateful that I was assigned this book in my Contemporary Queer Literature class. I have been meaning to read the works of Audre Lorde for a while, and I’m so glad I finally read Zami. It contains some of the most beautiful, thoughtful, challenging, descriptive prose I’ve ever read. It’s both deeply personal and deeply relatable in many aspects. Lorde leaves no stone unturned as she looks back at her life in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. We learn lessons right alongside her, and she is an excellent teacher and storyteller. This is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to know more about queer history, Black history, feminism, and so much more. Her deep-dives into intersectionality are invaluable. You won’t be able to put this book down.

Please heed all the many, many content warnings I and others have tagged. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Abortion, Death, Fatphobia, Bullying, Classism, Infidelity, Grief, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Homophobia, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, and Suicide attempt

davidup_15's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

Lorde's story is very, very inspirational, and there were quite a few moments that genuinely, genuinely hurt - on top of that, she does write absolutely beautifully. I personally didn't love this book, I think because it was a little too slow paced for my liking and didn't seem to deliver much of a coherent message, but that's very subjective to me - I am very, very glad that Lorde wrote the way she did, and about the subjects that she did, at the time that she did.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

kingaisnotcool's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Abortion

Moderate: Suicide, Rape, and Alcoholism

namizaela's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

This was a wonderful book, and Audre Lorde is such a great writer. For me, the main faults were that I had trouble connecting to her writing, maybe because the theme of the book shifted so suddenly from family to romantic love (which makes sense, because this is a memoir). Maybe this book would have worked better as a series of short stories or essays? Either way, Lorde is really amazing and she constructed a captivating narrative of her life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide