Audre Lorde

Collection of essays and speeches on racism, sexism, homophobia, and difference, including 'The Master's Tools.'

Biomythography of Lorde's coming of age as Black lesbian in 1950s New York.

Poetry collection drawing on African mythology and goddess traditions to explore Black womanhood.

Lorde's account of her breast cancer diagnosis and mastectomy, politicizing the illness.

Lorde's 'biomythography' of growing up Black, female, and queer in 1950s New York, through her relationships with women, her political awakening, and the Caribbean inheritance of her mother.