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Non-monogamy in Audre Lorde’s Zami
“Muriel and I decided that nothing could break the bonds between us, certainly not the sharing of our bodies and our joys with another woman whom we had come to love also. Our taking of Lynn to our bed became, not merely a fact to be integrated into our living, but a test for eachContinue reading “Non-monogamy in Audre Lorde’s Zami”
African Nationalism is not European Nationalism
When You Speak To Me
When you speak to me I am faced with You very real and proper Anger mixed with concern And yes bio-logic Which forces me to In The Same Breath Defend Myself And take your rage tru To not let myself Off the hooks of your pain But also I cannot go to the sea-floor WithContinue reading “When You Speak To Me”
The Uses of the Erotic – Audre Lorde
“The erotic is a resource within each one of us that lies in a very deeply female and spiritual plane. It is firmly rooted in the power of all our unexpressed and unrecognized feelings. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of theContinue reading “The Uses of the Erotic – Audre Lorde”
dispatch from the hill
the people are beautiful, interesting, hardworking, tired. the city is aliveshimmering tightly wound ‘round itself like a heart bump, the walls closing in and we all remark what a lovely day it is. what a lovely lovely day it really is
Done Wrong Blues
i want to cry in your armsi want to feel your simple charmsi don’t care what you dojust want to be with youi need to feel some warmth at nightcuz babe i get such fright you hear the daily newscan only send you into bluesi feel the way i always didlet my loneliness cocoon meandContinue reading “Done Wrong Blues”
ends versus means
every body is an end in itself meaningwe are not hereto profit we are not hereto exploitwe are not here to sufferwe are hereto walk this shining earth
howling out
come back to me?you sound just like a dog who buried her bone and don’t know where she putit only to seea tree blooming aboneshard blossomonly then will you know your mistake
An Interview with Audre Lorde
“And working with Black students, working with students who really questioned and caused, forced me to question what we were doing, how did we move, and what was the place, for instance, of our writing, of our poetry? And I came to see, first to feel, then to see, and then to share the factContinue reading “An Interview with Audre Lorde”
Aida Rends 