She Who Makes Her Meaning Known: Audre Lorde (1934–1992) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about Audre Lorde, the self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" whose essays and poems gave a generation the language it was missing.
Audre Lorde was born in Harlem on February 18, 1934, the youngest of three daughters of Caribbean immigrant parents, so nearsighted she was legally blind and so late to speak that her family worried. She began writing poetry at twelve, when she could no longer find existing poems that said what she needed to say, and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine while still at Hunter High School, after her own school…
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