Collage of Audre Lorde. Source: Afropunk.com Audre Lorde was an American poet, writer, feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist who has paved the way for a lot of influential artists today. Her poetry fuelled by injustice – her prose’ deeply personal. In the 1960’s Lorde’s work was regularly published in the US which drew in …
bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) has always been a leader for justice against prejudice and has challenged oppression in her literature and her activist work. She has addressed race, class, gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism. No stone has gone unturned. Arica L. Coleman, a writer for Time states in …
In order to empathise with the lived experiences of others we need to improve our understanding of intersectionality. In 2017, YW Boston released an article entitled, ‘What is intersectionality, and what does it have to do with me?’ describing intersectionality as “a framework for conceptualizing a person, group of people, or social problem as affected by a number of …