SisterOutsider

Also by Audre Lorde: The First Cities Cables to Rage From a Land Where Other People Live New York Head Shop and Museum Between Our Selves Coal The Black Unicorn Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power The Cancer Journals Chosen Poems: Old and New Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Text © 1984, 2007 by Audre Lorde All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com www.tenspeed.com Crossing Press and the Crossing Press colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lorde, Audre. Sister outsider. (The Crossing Press feminist series) I. Title. II. Series. PS3562.’75S5 1984 814’.54 84–1844 eISBN: 978-0-307-80904-9 v3.1 Acknowledgments I wish to acknowledge the invaluable help of each one of the women who supported me through these writings, with particular note of appreciation for the patience and insight of my editor, Nancy K. Boreano, who has helped to make the whole process real again. Contents Cover Other ......