Why you need to know the work of Audre Lorde
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Hi firends! Welcome to a new video and the start of a new series. In this series we will discuss the life and work of writers and poets. Today I decided to talk about the remarkable Audre Lorde.
Time stamps:
Short biography: 0:58
How did I get into Audre Lorde´s work? 3:24
Her most known work: 4:40
Why you should know her work: 8:47
Conclusion: 10:48
The clips of Audre Lorde in this video was from the documentary
called "Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992"
Here is the letterboxes link:
letterboxd.com/film/audre-lor...
Here is the link to the trailer:
• Audre Lorde - The Berl...
Books mentioned in the video:
Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
app.thestorygraph.com/books/e...
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
app.thestorygraph.com/books/6...
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
app.thestorygraph.com/books/c...
A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
app.thestorygraph.com/books/6...
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Loved seeing the footage from the documentary Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years in here. As a Black woman from Berlin myself, Audre was just such a treasure to our community. She will always be celebrated and remembered here. :)
I loved watching her documentary and gathering the clips. It's heartwarming to hear that Audre is still celebrated in your community! //Sumaya
Superficial! Audre deserves more!
❤❤❤❤❤😢 sooo amazing thank you. I am 42 and just found this ...was familiar with her quotes but man was I sleeping on her life. Her words and Spirit are very much alive today.
Thank you for producing this piece and sharing your knowledge on Audre Lorde. I’ve only just started reading her work and this footage helps to put her words into context with your relaxing commentary. A pleasure
I'm using your video in my classroom. Thank you so much for such an informative, passionate and approachable video! It's so hard to find stuff that is both engaging and inviting for my high school classroom, and this one nails it!
Wow, I feel so incredibly honored!! Thank you for that comment! Totally made my day after reading it! 🥺//Sumaya
This is exceptional. I was looking for a video to introduce Audre Lorde to my "Writing for Change" class. I'm excited to share your video with them!
I discovered Audre Lorde's work for the first time last Spring. I had just gotten back into reading during quarantine. She changed my life. Truly. Her words, her essence is so profound and inspiring. I have a deep love, appreciation, and respect for her. Over the course of last year, I purchased 4 of her books. I still need to buy Zami and a few others like the pink UK edition titled, Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Thank you for making this video
I can relate to you on how relatively recently I started reading Audre's work. I still haven't read Zami, but hopefully, I will soon!
Your welcome! Thank you for watching!
this is such an awesome series! and yes thank you so much for featuring Lorde, her work has changed my life too
thank you for this and looking forward to this series! I’ll definitely pick up some of her work :)
Just finished her biomythography. Such an incredible human.
Could not agree more!! : ‘)
Thank you! This is so helpful, and I love how you interwove so many nice clips of her speaking with your experiences of her work.
Thank you for sharing 😊. I’m definitely going to be exploring more of her works into the future!!
Thank you, I currently read Audre lorde and bell hooks too 👌🏽👍🏽🎉💚
I just discovered Audre Lorde, amazing Human. Thank you for the great video.
Thank you hun!! :)
This is Perfect!!!
Best wishes from Cambodia. Thank you for this video and honoring Audre Lorde in this way. I was the director of a bilingual, multi-site AIDS education program and the facilitator of consortium of organizations in the South Bay of LA County from 1987-91. Audre Lorde's picture hung in my little office with the quote, “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”― Audre Lorde
Thank you for making this video! I'm reading Black Unicorn atm and was looking for some context. I read the mini classic and Sister Outsider previously. The editions are so beautiful! :)
You are really welcome! Hope you enjoy your read!! :) //Sumaya
Thank you that was super helpful! There are so many aspects to this woman that ofcourse people cannot help relating!
Im really glad I could be of help! And I totally agree!! :) //Sumaya
This was a beautiful video! The way you interspersed the videos of Audre Lorde herself was so touching. And I used to pronounce Audre Lorde wrong until recently too! 😓 very embarrassing but at least we’re not alone.
Thank you hun!! That’s really kind of you to say!! And yes you’re definitely not alone in that 😹
Thanks, loved seeing her in actual footage, i'm currently reading my 1st of her called Zami, planning on the essays next.
Me too! Hope you enjoy the reads !! :))
I like the clips
Great idea for a series! ❤️
Thank you! :) //Sumaya
One of my favorite writers & thinkers! TY for uplifting. I am glad I found your channel.
She is my inspiration
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I have been reading Zami. Quite impressive.
What really struck me, having seen only the first few pages of the cancer journals (I will read it when I'm ready), was that when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, women rallied round to help her. It doesn't happen now. Nobody is rallying round to help me. I am three weeks post masectomy. I'm going to get a cleaner in. There's no-one oferring to help me with mine. A FEW people have said, "Just ask if you need anything," but you can't just ask someone to do your cleaning...None of them have made the boundaries clear ie they haven't exolained what they can & can't do to help. i've even had a family member post online. "You're okay. You have a good support network" without asking me first. There are so many people out there who can't afford a cleaner. Yet no one will be oferring to help them either.
Leaving a comment for more engagement ^^
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4:04 me pronouncing the w in greenwich village for ages
Hahahah!! Glad I’m not alone 🤣//Sumaya
You never gave any examples of her work and your thoughts at the moment on it...
:-)
One of the mothers of modern black women psychic condition along with Gloria Stenem Alice Warker Michele Wallace Ntosage Shange and countless other female writers who knew thier path to success was dismantling the black family.
"The African Name," Yall couldn't even be bothered to say which language much less the country it came from... Ok.
Her works were so infantile and silly.