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The Afterlives of Audre Lorde
Even if you don’t know who Audre Lorde is, you’ve probably encountered her ideas in the world or, at the very least, scrolled past them on social media. Lines from her poems and essays are just as likely to appear in an Instagram post as on a protest sign or in a pamphlet for an academic conference: “We were never meant to survive.” “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” “Your silence will not protect you.” Lorde’s most oracular line, however, is not as popular, though she said it frequently into her later years. “What I leave behind has a life of its own.” She knew that her work was shifting consciousness.