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Friday, March 18, 2016

Book Review: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde

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“I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.” 
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Short Description:
Lorde is a black woman living in Harlem, NYC for most of her childhood. Her parents, trying there best to make due with what society hands them while protecting her feelings which shapes who she becomes as an adult. She has a hard time finding her way in the segregated times of the 1950-1960s. However, through much search - she finds something, a sisterhood she is apart of.