audre lorde
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Penn Students Remove Picture of William Shakespeare, Replace it With Audre Lorde
The blackest thing ever happened on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania: A group of students recently removed a picture of William Shakespeare and replaced it with one of Audre Lorde. Fisher-Bennett Hall is home to Penn’s English department, and the portrait of Shakespeare has resided over the main staircase in the building for…
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What Pain Has to Teach in the Advent of a Trump Presidency
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.” —Audre Lorde I’ll never forget Valentine’s Day my sophomore year in high school. My social status had been uplifted from chubby black kid to chubby black kid who does sports. And with my freshly…