{"product_id":"sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches-by-lorde-audre","title":"Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Lorde, Audre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSister Outsider \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 1580911862\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Crossing Press\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: August 1, 2007\u003cbr\u003ePage Count: 192\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Second Chapter Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63436311953777,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0945\/1097\/3297\/files\/71LymtJyjKL._SL1500.jpg?v=1775955073","url":"https:\/\/secondchapterbookstore.com\/products\/sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches-by-lorde-audre","provider":"Second Chapter Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}