# Audre Lorde (@audre-lorde)

Audre Lorde was an American poet, essayist, teacher, librarian, and activist whose writing confronted racism, sexism, class inequality, homophobia, and illness. She presented identity not as a single category but as a set of lived differences that could become sources of knowledge and political connection.

Her poetry collections, essays in Sister Outsider, biomythography Zami, and The Cancer Journals move between intimate experience and collective struggle. Lorde’s work made language itself a political practice: a means to name fear, anger, desire, survival, and forms of exclusion often left unspoken.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Audre Lorde's public record._

## Topics

- [Difference and Coalition](/@audre-lorde/difference-and-coalition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Poetry, Language, and Self-Definition](/@audre-lorde/poetry-language-and-self-definition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Silence, Illness, and Action](/@audre-lorde/silence-illness-and-action.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Campaigns and Public Record](/@audre-lorde/campaigns-and-public-record.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Legacy and Context](/@audre-lorde/legacy-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Work and Method](/@audre-lorde/work-and-method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde
- blog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/146096/audre-lorde-selections
- blog: https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2015/11/rediscovering-the-warrior-poet-finding-audre-lorde-at-the-library-of-congress/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "audre-lorde", "question": "…"}`.