The Wind Is Spirit · the Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde by Joseph, Gloria I. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Halftitle Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Foreword – Calling All Women, Men, Children, Calling All Oceans, Skies, Clouds, Butterflies: This Is a Love Poem ▪ Sonia Sanchez Introduction PART I Things Happen: A Call and Response Biography of Audre Lorde

My Sister Audre ▪ Phyllis Blackwell Her Prophetic, Visionary Voice ▪ Adrienne Rich Offering: A Few Moments Across the Decades with Audre Lorde ▪ Clare Coss and Blanche Wiesen Cook I Think You Are a Voice of the Time ▪ Charlotte Sheedy Editing Audre ▪ Nancy K. Bereano Audre Lorde’s Lasting Impression ▪ Georgette Norman Audre Lorde, New York State Poet Laureate ▪ Mark Green Reflections of Gloria and Audre ▪ Ernest David Green Life Is Sweet: Working with Audre in the Bee Collective ▪ Sadiq Abdullah My Friend and Hero ▪ Howard Francis The Hugo Experience ▪ Char Levitt We All Loved Her ▪ Mae Caleb

PART II Pleasures and Politics of Traveling with Audre

Grenada, 1983 Cuba, January 1985 Anguilla, 1986 Bonnieux, France, and London, England, 1986 The Cruise, “Islands in the Sun,” 1986 Grenada and Carriacou Revisited, 1991 Hawaii, 1991

PART III The Indelible Influence and Impact of Audre Lorde

SECTION ONE Audre’s Memorial Service, New York City, January 1993 SECTION TWO Breaths of Sorrow, Solace of Love Meeting Audre Lorde ▪ Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., M.Sc. Breaking the Silence that Audre Challenged ▪ Barbara Smith I Will Never Stop Missing Her ▪ Evelynn M. Hammonds A Place to Grieve ▪ Kate Rushin She Showed Us How to Love Ourselves as Black Women ▪ Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole Audre Lorde ▪ Michelle Cliff SECTION THREE Hope and Healing: Berlin, Germany That Is the Whole Truth ▪ Ika Hügel-Marshall Soul Sister ▪ May Ayim Gamba Adisa’s Medical History ▪ Manfred D. Kuno My Coming-out as a Black Lesbian in Germany ▪ Katharina Oguntoye Audre Lorde – Her Struggles and Her Visions ▪ Dagmar Schultz Afro-German: A New Spelling of My Identity ▪ Judy Gummich And We Danced and Danced and Danced ▪ Helga Emde We Were All So Proud to Be There ▪ Annabelle Bernard Audre Lorde’s Transatlantic Sisterhoods ▪ Cora Liebowitz SECTION FOUR The Balm of Home in St. Croix, V.I. All You Had to Do ▪ Winnie “Oyoko” Loving Force of the ’80s: Look on Us and Be Renewed ▪ Cassandra Dunn An Audre Lorde Day ▪ Yemaya Jones Chats with Elder Sister Audre Lorde in St. Croix ▪ Chenzira Davis Kahina Crossings ▪ Caryn Hodge Audre, Gloria and Me: Hanging Out with Women Warriors ▪ Zala Highsmith-Taylor Rebecca and Her Teddy Bears ▪ Rebecca Lewis Smith SECTION FIVE Poetry Is Not a Luxury Writing for Public Consumption ▪ Chrystos Smith Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker ▪ Cherríe L. Moraga Prologue: Audre Lorde – Word and Action ▪ Jewelle Gomez On Difference and Sameness: How Audre Lorde Inspired My Work ▪ Marion Kraft Audre Lorde: From Black Unicorn to Uenuku ▪ Cathie Koa Dunsford SECTION SIX Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Activism and Healing Audre Lorde in the Twenty-First Century ▪ Angela Y. Davis I Am Continuing the Work ▪ Mia Mingus A Capacity for Joy ▪ Kate Clinton And What of Your Tools? ▪ Leslie Raymer Fierce Embrace of a Magnificent Life ▪ Dr. Cheryl Scott For Remembrance, For Audre Lorde ▪ Andaiye You Do Not Fight Alone ▪ Assata Shakur Audre and Malcolm ▪ Dessima Williams

PART IV Resting and Rising: Scattering the Ashes

Buck Island Reef, St. Croix ▪ Janest Hewitt Schrader Krumme Lanke Lake, Berline ▪ Dagmar Schultz Pele’s Crater, Hawaii Oahu, Honolulu, Hawaii

PART V Keepers of the Flame

Audre Lorde, My Teacher ▪ Melinda Goodman Praise the Lorde: The Queer Survival of Audre Lorde ▪ Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs All These Liberations – Dissertation Excerpts ▪ Angela Bowen Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals: Harbinger of the Public Breast Cancer Conversation ▪ Opal Palmer Adisa I Am Speaking into the Silence ▪ Melba Mathurin She Was Fierce! Audre Lorde and Salsa Soul Sisters: Transforming the Black Lesbian Community ▪ Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Imani Rashad, Cassandra Grant, Stahimili Mapp Rallying for World Peace and Justice ▪ Samuel Raphael Lasting Legacies

Postscript - The Happening Backcover

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