Your Silence Will Not Protect You

About this book

***Your Silence Will Not Protect You*** collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde, 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.

Subjects

• anti racist
• collected works (single author, multi-form)
• essays
• feminism
• lgbtiq+
• nonfiction
• poetry
• politics
• queer
• race
• social justice