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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

jaqueline's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

lottie1803's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

charlee_1895's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

If you are trying to better educate yourself on race, queerness, or feminism this is a good book to read.

themoostconfused's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

brisingr's review against another edition

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5.0

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

No voice as clear as Audre Lorde's - her awareness to the world, to the mapping of our social, and the heart of individuals, and the need of society as a whole is phenomenal, and this is a read that everyone needs.

northernbiblio's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

kaiazania's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

lilaceous's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

impact - ⭐️
cohesion - ⭐️
engaging overall - .5⭐️
would recommend - ⭐️
would read again - ⭐️

page after page of heavy hitting lines and essays. i look forward to rereading and practicing this regularly as i grow.

prettypious's review against another edition

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5.0

Another reread...when I get stuck I return to this often to help inspire my pen and give me some audacity...anyways this time I did an audiobook and I won’t be doing that again because I didn’t like the narrator on this...she didn’t seem to be reading with any type of meaning/comprehension or flair

mitskacir's review against another edition

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3.0

Based on my experience with this book on the first read through, I’m giving it 3 stars because there were only a couple of essays that really got me thinking. However, I am planning on revisiting a few of the essays that were more opaque to me with the help of a friend and hope that I can come to appreciate them more deeply. I particularly struggled with understanding Poetry is Not a Luxury and Use of the Erotic, which were written in more academic/poetic language than the ones I connected with more (like The Uses of Anger). I was impressed by Lorde’s breadth of writing style even if I found some more accessible than others.