Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.

In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.

These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is...”

“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.” —New York Times 

• The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
• Women, Race, & Class
• The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
• All About Love: New Visions (Bell Hooks Love Trilogy (Paperback))
• Women of Color and Feminism: Seal Studies
• Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming