One of my goals for 2021 is to read one book a month for all 12 months. This is by no means an impressive goal, but one that is focused on rekindling the connection with reading I had before becoming swamped in social media.
Yesterday I finished Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, my first book-length read by the author. Lorde first caught my attention when I read “Uses of the Erotic” in college, and her uniquely poetic prose has stuck with me since. Sister Outsider is incredible in that it is a very approachable text which still manages to catapult you into the heart of racism, sexism, and intersectionality. Some of what I found to be the most potent excerpts are “Poetry is Not a Luxury”, “Uses of the Erotic”, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, and “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger”. Lorde’s perspective is worth so much more than your time.