Note: this course emphasizes experimentation, creativity, collaboration, and student-centered learning. In this course, we will analyze Lorde’s poems, essays in Sister Outsider, hybrid “biomythology” Zami, reflections on illness in The Cancer Journals, and teaching materials, as well as her impact on contemporary writers and activists. Famously, she insisted that art (and poetry in particular) is not a “luxury” but a means of survival for women, people of color, people who are gay, lesbian, and queer, and people from other marginalized groups. Her work emerged from and inspired the Women’s Movement, the Black Power Movement, and the Gay and Lesbian Movement. This course explores the art and activism of Audre Lorde, a self-proclaimed “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Throughout the late twentieth century, Lorde was a prominent cultural critic who analyzed the intersections of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
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