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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

5.0

Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider consists of a collection of her poems, essays, and speeches, discussing various points relating to sexuality, homophobia, gender, sexism, ethnicity, racism, politics, and colonisation. I recommend this book because a book written by a queer woman of colour, about being a queer woman of colour and the importance of intersectionality, is so important. It gives a voice to those who were not heard, especially not in the time this book was written. ‘I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to use it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it in silence, afraid of the weight. My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger will teach you nothing, also.’