I am your sister : collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde / edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
| Author/creator | Lorde, Audre |
| Other author | Byrd, Rudolph P. |
| Other author | Cole, Johnnetta B. |
| Other author | Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description | xv, 280 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Transgressing boundaries Transgressing boundaries. ^A606436 |
| Contents | Introduction : create your own fire : Audre Lorde and the tradition of black radical thought / Rudolph P. Byrd -- The transformation of silence into language and action -- Sexism : an American disease in blackface -- Sadomasochism : not about condemnation : an interview with Audre Lord / Susan Leigh Starr -- I am your sister : black women organizing across sexualities -- Apartheid U.S.A. -- Turning the beat around : lesbian parenting 1986 -- A burst of light : living with cancer -- Eva's man by Gayl Jones : a review -- Self-definition and my poetry -- Introduction : Movement in black by Pat Parker -- My words will be there -- Foreword to the English edition of Farbe bekennen : Afro-deutsche frauen auf den spuren ihrer geschichte -- Preface to a new edition of Need : A chorale for black woman voices -- Poet as teacher-human as poet-teacher as human -- Poetry makes something happen -- My mother's mortar -- Difference and survival : an address at Hunter College -- The first black feminist retreat : July 6, 1977 -- When will the ignorance end? : keynote speech at the National Third World Gay and Lesbian Conference, October 13, 1979 -- An address delivered as part of the "litany of commitment" at the March on Washington, August 27, 1983 -- Commencement address : Oberlin College, May 29, 1989 -- There is no hierarchy of oppression -- What is at stake in lesbian and gay publishing today : the Bill Whitehead Award ceremony, 1990 -- Is your hair still political? -- Audre Lord : my shero, my teacher, my sister friend / Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Audre's voice / Alice Walker -- Lorde : the imagination of justice / bell hooks -- Remembering Audre Lorde / Gloria I. Joseph -- Epilogue : bearing witness : the legacy of Audre Lorde / Beverly Guy-Sheftall. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-266) and index. |
| Awards note | American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book, 2010. |
| LCCN | 2009002083 |
| ISBN | 9780195341485 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195341481 (hardcover : alk. paper) |