From the self-described ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’, these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.
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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
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Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
Written with a ‘black woman’s anger’ and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as ‘other’.
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New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker
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Dark Days by James Baldwin
Drawing on Baldwin’s own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays – Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man’s Guilt – blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
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The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
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The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
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Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker