Your Silence Will Not Protect You - Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

Silver Press

2018

220 páginas

7h 20m

ISBN-10: 0995716226

Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde’s luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many Women’s Marches against Trump across the world.

This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde’s work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.

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Audre Lorde, silêncio-transformação...

Sinto que Audre teria adorado ler os ensaios de Michiyo Fukaya, principalmente quando ela disse que sentia que seu silêncio era algo ruim, o silêncio como opressão, que seu silêncio era conivente ao racismo. Além disso, tanto Michiyo quanto Audre foram mulheres lésbicas brilhantes, que escreveram sobre si mesmas, sobre a sociedade, sobre ser lésbica, sobre ser uma mulher racializada, sobre transformar o silêncio em grito, em queimar. Deixar queimar todo esse silêncio até que se transforme em um aterrorizante grito de resistência e força.