“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 ...

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," ...

In the third chapter of “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde,” titled “prologue,” author and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes, “This biography will consider what Audre considered ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is what scholar and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs likes to call a “quantum biography.” To understand Audre Lorde’s ...

Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate Journalist and map enthusiast Keating (Dingers!) presents a stunning volume of maps that serve, intentionally or ...

Audre Lorde was a powerful woman who used her writing to advocate for women’s rights, racial equality, and LGBT+ rights. Her intersectionality meant she faced hardship, but it also gave her immense ...