Poet and philosopher Audre Lorde was one of her generation’s greatest writers and thinkers.
Poet and philosopher Audre Lorde was one of her generation’s greatest writers and thinkers. She embraced intersectional feminism as a way to prevent the “hierarchy of oppression.” Her poems often addressed civil rights issues and social injustice. She delivered many as powerful spoken word pieces, and she later movingly chronicled her breast cancer treatment.