Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

by Audre Lorde

Reni Eddo-Lodge (Preface) and Sara Ahmed (Introduction)

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

This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde’s work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.

  • ISBN13 9780995716223
  • Publish Date 2 October 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Silver Press
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 220
  • Language English