American poet and feminist theorist who wrote at the intersection of Blackness, womanhood, and lesbianism — one of the founding voices of intersectional feminism.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House: feminist work that uses the dominant culture's frameworks replicates those frameworks. Sister Outsider: essays on race, class, and sexuality. Poetry as a survival tool: 'Poetry is not a luxury.' The transformation of silence into language and action.
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