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Wild Intelligence
Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of
the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as
significant sites for the information boom, it is unsurprising that
McCarthyism and censorship would shape what they granted readers
access to and acquired. Wild Intelligence traces a
different history of information management, examining the
privately assembled collections of poets and their
knowledge-building practices at midcentury.
Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during
the 1950s and 1960s, including Charles Olson (1910-1970), Diane di
Prima (1934-2020), Gerrit Lansing (1928-2018), and Audre Lorde
(1934-1992), M. C. Kinniburgh shows that the postwar American
poet's library should not just be understood according to
individual books within their collection but rather as an archival
resource that reveals how poets managed knowledge in a growing era
of information overload. Exploring traditions and systems that had
been overlooked, buried, occulted, or censored, these poets sought
to recover a sense of history and chart a way forward.
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Insurgent truth : Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling
\"This book is about Chelsea Manning's leaking of government documents. Manning told the truth about war and a social order sustained by it. Her truth-telling also revealed the complicity of public and private in casting her - a non-gender-conforming individual - as an improper truth-teller. And Manning's truth-telling unsettled hierarchies of truth-telling that prop up a discriminatory and often oppressive social order. I read Manning not as an isolated political actor, but instead as an outsider truth-teller within a cohort of outsider truth-tellers (such as Virginia Woolf, Bayard Rustin, Audre Lorde), whose practices are distinct yet connected, and whose significance becomes more apparent when read in conjunction with each other\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Affective Stereotype Threat as Affective Injustice
In this paper, I seek to describe the 'other' harms and forms of wrongdoing that an affective stereotype with specific racial and gender content, has. I will focus on the \"Angry Black Woman\" stereotype (or ABW stereotype), and I will reveal its intrinsic and direct extrinsic harms. I'll then argue that it is a stereotype threat prime whose harm as an 'affective injustice' can cause agents to underperform on real-life affective, social, and political tasks. I also think prescriptively with Black feminist Audre Lorde about stereotype threat and how to respond to it. In doing so, I hope to contribute to the conversation that began with Larry Blum by expanding the harms that stereotypes inflict, particularly affective stereotypes of marginalized groups.
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Redefining Resistance: Revolutionary Women in Audre Lorde's \Who Said It Was Simple\
Audre Lorde's poetry, especially \"Who Said It Was Simple\", vividly illustrates her lived experiences as an African American lesbian woman navigating intersecting prejudices of racism, sexism, and homophobia. This study aims to analyze how Lorde's poem reflects and critiques societal norms that perpetuate inequality, particularly for Black women, and explores the poem's role in feminist discourse. The research employs a qualitative descriptive analysis with a focus on textual analysis. Using a qualitative content analysis approach, the study interprets the thematic elements of Lorde’s poem, examining how linguistic elements and symbols convey Lorde's experiences and societal critiques. The analysis reveals that Lorde’s poem addresses the systemic barriers faced by Black women, emphasizing how these barriers stem from the interplay of race, gender, and sexuality. The poem illustrates the isolation and marginalization Lorde experiences, both within her own community and in broader society. It concludes by highlighting the persistent divide in societal acceptance of diverse identities. This study contributes to the understanding of intersectional feminism by illustrating how Lorde’s poetry encapsulates the complexities of identity and resistance. It enhances the discourse on Black feminism by highlighting the unique struggles faced by Black lesbian women and how these struggles are articulated through poetic expression.
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The Feminism of Afro-American in Audre Lorde’s Selected Poems
This research aims to discover the feminism of Afro-Americans in the selected poems of Audre Lorde by understanding the meaning and elaborating it with Lorde’s attitude towards feminism. The research employed a descriptive qualitative method and structuralism is the determined approach to process the data. Therefore, this study is not only concerned with the structure of the poems but also combined with the feminism theory. The result of this research indicated that the objects contained several poetical elements: figurative language, imagery, diction, and tone, that have a main function in enriching the meanings and semantic atmospheres in order to disclose the feminism issues inside the poems. Therefore, the analysis of poetical devices shows how significant the author treats feminism inside her selected poems.
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Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition
Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.
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From sick role to narrative subject
Questions of illness experience and identity are discussed, based on the analysis of a story told by the breast-cancer activist Audre Lorde. Displacing Parsons’ conceptualization of illness as a sick role, I understand the ill person as a narrative subject, defined by discursive possibilities. Three discourses of illness are proposed: the medical institutional discourse, the discourse of illness experience, and the pink-ribbon discourse. Each has its preferred narratives. These discourses overlap and mutually affect each other. Problems with the Foucauldian conceptualization of the subject are considered, and a dialogical imagination of relations of governmentality is proposed.
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Feeling, Knowledge, Self-Preservation: Audre Lorde's Oppositional Agency and Some Implications for Ethics
Throughout her work, Audre Lorde maintains that her self-preservation in the face of oppression depends on acting from the recognition and valorization of her feelings as a deep source of knowledge. This claim, taken as a portrayal of agency, poses challenges to standard positions in ethics, epistemology, and moral psychology. This article examines the oppositional agency articulated by Lorde's thought, locating feeling, poetry, and the power she calls ‘the erotic’ within her avowed project of self-preservation. It then explores the implications of taking seriously Lorde's account, particularly for theorists examining ethics and epistemology under nonideal social conditions. For situations of sexual intimacy, for example, Lorde's account unsettles prevailing assumptions about the role of consent in responsibility between sexual partners. I argue that obligations to solicit consent and respect refusal are not sufficient to acknowledge the value of agency in intimate encounters when agency is oppositional in the way Lorde describes.
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Difficult Conversations with Adam Smith
What can Adam Smith can teach us about the emotional terrain of difficult conversations, particularly those that touch on lived realities of injustice, oppression, and marginalization? In Part One of the Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith takes a few pages to dwell on the topic of interpersonal disagreement: more specifically, on how differently we feel about disagreements \"with regard to such indifferent objects as concern neither me nor my companion\" (TMS, 21) than we do when our own fortunes, feelings and even identity are bound up in the topic at hand. I argue that careful attention to Smiths discussion of disagreement reveals a set of norms for navigating uncomfortable terrain that avoid the pitfalls of so-called tone-policing and other contemporary approaches to civility.
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