![]() ![]() ![]() A prophet within the “house of difference”-her name for the fraught but promising terrain of the marginalized and multicultural-she called out with terrifying clarity the endemic strain of white supremacist violence in American life. The comment recalls Audre Lorde’s work, with its relevance to our historical moment-for Lorde always knew that “something more” was required, and she galvanized her publics to rise to the occasion. “I think we all know, deep down, that something more is required of us now,” writes Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness (2010), responding to the police murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the subsequent killing of officers in Dallas. The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde Edited by Stella Bolaki and Sabine BroeckĪmherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015, 250 pp., $28.95, paperback ![]()
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