{"product_id":"sister-outsider","title":"Sister Outsider","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, \u003ci\u003eSister Outsider \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoet, novelist, activist, and mother of two, \u003cstrong\u003eAudre Lorde\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up Harlem in the 1930s. A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. She earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She is the author of 12 books. She died in 1992.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crossing Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67797232320748,"sku":"9781580911863","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/2987\/3644\/files\/71LymtJyjKL._SL1500.jpg?v=1792472915","url":"https:\/\/www.gladysbooksandwine.com\/products\/sister-outsider","provider":"Gladys Books \u0026 Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}