These are the main themes that would become integral to Lorde’s legacy as a central figure of several equal rights movements— from second-wave feminism to LGBTQ equality.
In 1974 she published New York Head Shop and Museum. Thereafter, she published Coal and The Black Unicorn. These works are notable for their themes of protest and resistance. The poems called for social and racial justice. These are the main themes that would become integral to Lorde’s legacy as a central figure of several equal rights movements— from second-wave feminism to LGBTQ equality. From 1991 until she died in 1992 Audre Lorde was the poet laureate of New York. She passed away in November of that year from liver cancer.