Lorde’s poetry was published throughout the 1960s in several literary journals and magazines centered around Black art. Lorde then studied at Hunter College and pursued a career as a librarian while also writing and participating in the gay culture of Greenwich Village. Upon studying at the National University of Mexico in 1954, Lorde experienced a time of what she described as “affirmation and renewal” that helped confirm her identity and profession as a lesbian poet i. Born on February 18th, 1934 in New York City to Caribbean parents, Lorde preferred using poetry as a means to communicate at a young age. A Brief Biography Of Audre LordeĪudre Lorde was a poet, a librarian, a feminist, and a civil rights activist. In Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde explores how accepting her divine feminine power and queerness particularly strengthened her voice as a poet, ultimately asserting the transformative potential of embracing one’s unique identity through her reclamation of the “Erotic” and description of queer existence. Lorde affirms and reaffirms the beauty in difference and calls to action her readers and peers to recognize it in their work and lives. Sister Outsider, a collection of Lorde’s essays and speeches, is a timelessly relevant ode to embracing one’s true identity for all of its characteristics, whether they involve one’s race, gender, or sexuality.
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