I Am Your Sister Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde

Rudolph Byrd is Professor of American Studies and Director of the African American Studies Program at Emory University. Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College. Johnnetta Cole was the first black woman president of Spelman College. She is currently the president of Bennett College.

• Dedication ; Acknowledgements ; INTRODUCTION: CREATE YOUR OWN FIRE: AUDRE LORDE AND THE TRADITION OF BLACK RADICAL THOUGHT ; PART I.: FROM SISTER OUTSIDER AND A BURST OF LIGHT ; The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action ; Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface ; Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation ; I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities ; Apartheid USA ; Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986 ; A Burst of Light: Living With Cancer ; PART II.: MY WORDS WILL BE THERE ; Eva's Man by Gayle Jones: A Review ; Self-Definition and My Poetry ; Introduction: Movement in Black by Pat Parker ; My Words Will Be There" from Black Women Writers ; Introduction to Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den Suren ihrer Geschichte ; Preface: Need: A Chorale for Black Women Voices ; Poet As Teacher-Human As Poet-Teacher as Human ; Poetry Makes Something Happen ; My Mother's Mortar ; PART III.: DIFFERENCE AND SURVIVAL ; Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College ; The First Black Feminist Retreat ; When Will the Ignorance End? Keynote Address at the First National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference ; Litany of Commitment: An Address Delivered at the March on Washington, (1983) ; Commencement Address: Oberlin College ; There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression ; What is at Stake in Lesbian and Gay Publishing Today: the Bill Whitehead Award Ceremony ; Is Your Hair Still Political? ; PART IV.: REFLECTIONS ; Audre Lorde: My Shero, My Teacher, My Sister Friend ; Audre's Voice ; The Imagination of Justice ; Remembering Audre Lorde ; CONCLUSION, BEARING WITNESS: THE LEGACY OF AUDRE LORDE ; Contributors ; Selected Bibliography ; Chronology ; Index

This book, clearly a labor of love by three colleagues who also call themselves friends, meets its objectives and more...This invaluable collections enables us to hear Lorde's voice again and to use the life lessons she shared with us.