Roxane Gay is a literary icon. So what do you get when you combine the author whose best-selling books include Bad Feminist, Hunger and Difficult Women with the revolutionary Black feminist Audre ...

Spelman College will be the first HBCU in history to fund a chair in queer studies, and the prestigious institution is naming it after Audre Lorde, the Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet who taught ...

This 11‑book list gathers stories of survival and resilience, delivers practical knowledge, and critiques inequities while ...

Audre Lorde was born in New York City and was a prolific writer and poet whose work addressed the state of the world, confronted inequities, and brought to light the tossing aside of Black queer women ...

Untapped New York is excited to announce a new editorial collaboration with the Gotham Center for New York City History. In this series, we’ll share fascinating stories from the Gotham Center archives ...

The Audre Lorde Traveling Exhibit opened last Thursday, Feb. 25 at the LGBT Center. The exhibit has returned to Boston for its final showcase, where it was originally displayed as a part of the 1990 ...

Shortly before her death, the eminently quotable Audre Lorde—an American original who became a major figure in women's, African-American and lesbian literature—took the African name "Gamba Adisa," ...

Black feminist Audre Lorde would have turned 80 years old today. (She also shares a birthday with Toni Morrison, who turns 83.) Twitter is flooded with tributes, remembrances and quotes from the ...

“Neither of us has forever,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotes Audre Lorde in her expansive biography of the prolific, Harlem-born poet and essayist. Lorde wrote this in a letter to Pat Parker, one of many ...

Audre Lorde dedicated her life and writing to confronting injustices — including injustices committed against the LGBTQ community. A writer who got her first poem published in “Seventeen” magazine ...

Audre Lorde—first of her name, breaker of limitations, guardian of complexity. She's a Black lesbian feminist icon. It's hard to talk about intersectionality and radical love without mentioning or ...