7-8: Audre Lorde, Samuel R. Delaney

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Lorde, Audre. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.

in short: Audre Lorde was among other things a black West Indian(-American) lesbian radical feminist, who in feminist circles at least, is best known for the speech “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House,” and was a great advocate of intersectionality in feminism. Her autobiography, which I am in the middle of reading Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is one of the many books that has been Amazon Rank'd.

She also wrote poetry.

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Delany, Samuel R. They Fly at Ciron.

in short: A short sf/f novel about a military campaign on a small village. The regularly peaceful villagers must turn to the mysterious Winged One who live high in the mountains for help.

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[harborshore.livejournal.com]

*uses appropriate icon for talk of women and sex* The Fat Black Woman's Poems were rather amazing, though I don't remember them being all that queer. They are both West Indian and feminist though, and very sex-positive.

[hapex-legomena.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec. That will do quite nicely.