This bookclub is 100% virtual and exclusively structured to center Black and Brown women. As of now, it will be a collective with a Black and Brown membership. In time, there may be space for us to expand and broaden to include guests who identify as allies.
this month's pick is:
Sister Outsider
In 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.
These 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 . . . "
Key Themes:
Queer Studies
Sexuality
Gender Roles
Sisterhood
Feminist Theory
