... This chapter reads Díaz alongside the black lesbian poet Audre Lorde to highlight Díaz’s concern with race, class, gender, and sexuality as mutually constituting and consequential aspects of identity. It begins with a consideration of the place of race in Díaz’s fiction to engage recent...

... approach to the materiality of embodiment that is critically alert to the ways in which certain disciplinary ways of knowing have been constructed as less mediated access to that materiality than others. In a revaluation of marginalized body-knowledges, it reads Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic...

... This chapter illustrates how Audre Lorde’s theories of difference emerged in reciprocal relation to her CUNY classrooms (including at City College, Lehman College, and John Jay College). It examines her pedagogies of difference: the methods she developed for teaching students about race, class...

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... The conclusion draws on the author's own experiences with acute mylogenous leukemia (AML) in order to explore the concepts discussed throughout the book: temporality, situatedness, porous bodies, and care. The chapter engages with Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Frantz Fanon's diagnosis...

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... The introduction traces the trajectory of gendered hyperembodiment through the cultural productions of the black Atlantic that are heavily dependent upon black women’s representational stasis. Using examples from Toni Morrison’s Beloved , Audre Lorde’s poem “Afterimages,” and John Edgar...

... performances in 1967 and 1968, and a 1968 review of a mixed repertory performance in Central Park, where Johnston writes about the audience, particularly the queer community within it. This chapter also includes a comparison of Audre Lorde and Jill Johnston, who each made lists as a way to emphasize...

... Audre Lorde is a much-revered figure within black queer studies. Her theorization of the erotic is often used to articulate a mode of solidarity in which people from disparate backgrounds can come together to combat oppression. While this use of Lorde’s work has been politically salient, Amber...

... The introduction explains the historical moment in which Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich were teaching. It provides background information on the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) educational opportunity program and CUNY’s open admissions policy...