![]() I began reading everything she wrote, before or since, that I could get my hands on. This was a woman who definitely knew where her power was located-inside herself and had obviously spent a lot of time refueling. She had recently undergone surgery for breast cancer and was in the process of finishing The Cancer Journals. I first met Audre during the late ‘70s after a reading at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. ![]() First and foremost a poet, Audre Lorde’s work has contributed to social justice and visionary writing by providing countless examples of how to be brave, especially as an outsider, and do one’s work, using “whatever piece of power you own, no matter how small, in the service of what you believe.” The documentary A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde is the result of an eight year struggle to create a film that would expose a wide audience to Audre Lorde’s genius.
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