![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The term intersectionality was coined by professor Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989, in her legal article, ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’. ‘I was gay and Black’, Lorde writes in Zami, a novel which is, above all else, an ode to intersectionality. Whilst Lorde, self-described as a “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet” is better known as a poet, activist, and essayist as opposed to a prose writer, with prose so beautiful and expressive, it is hard not to fall in love with this novel. Loosely based on her childhood in New York in the 1930s and 40s, and her experiences as a Black lesbian in America in the 1950s, this is a book that seamlessly combines myth, biography, and history, to tell a tale like no other. Published as a ‘biomythography’, Zami (1982) is Audre Lorde’s only novel. ![]()
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