Her father from Barbados and her mother from the Grenadian island of Carriacou, her parents came to the US in their early twenties. Growing up with extremely strict parents in New York City, Lorde’s childhood seems to be a constant clash of wills with her iron-willed mother. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the lived experiences of intersectional marginalisation, as told by one of the most strident and talented voices to talk about these realities. Lorde was a self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” and this recording of her early life is a powerful piece of writing. Scholar of literary & cultural studies, editor of poco.lit.Īudre Lorde’s biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name relates this iconic writer’s personal, poetic, political and sexual coming-of-age.
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