Writer Roxane Gay on the Significance of Audre Lorde

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In the introduction to a new anthology of the work of Black lesbian writer and activist Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay writes that Lorde "is an exemplar of public intellectualism who is as relevant in this century as she was in the last.” Gay, an author whose best-selling books include "Bad Feminist" and "Hunger," edited the new anthology titled, "The Selected Works of Audre Lorde." The book features a mix of Lorde's groundbreaking poetry and prose on topics of race, queer identity, feminism and justice. With her selections, Gay aims to highlight the "grace, power, and fierce intelligence" of Lorde's writing and the ways it helped make the experiences of Black women more visible. We'll talk to Gay about the work and legacy of Audre Lorde. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.1	Coming up on forum, Roxanne Gaye joins us.
1:07.4	The author of An Untamed State, the short story collection, Difficult Women, and the memoir, Hunger,
1:10.8	has compiled an anthology of works by Audrey Lord. In the introduction, Gay calls
1:12.7	Lord an exemplar of public intellectualism who is as relevant in this century as she was in
1:18.6	the last. We'll talk with Gay about Lord's poetry and prose on race, queer identity, feminism,
1:24.2	and justice, as well as other projects Gay's been working on. Join us after this news.
1:29.3	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:48.2	In Roxanne Gay's essay introducing the selected works of Audrey Lord, she says that Lord was the
1:53.1	first to demonstrate to her that, quote, a writer could be intensely concerned with the inner
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