Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde Crescent championing the imagination as a

championing the imagination as a vital instrument of freedom

an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife

She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures

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Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde Crescent championing the imagination as aWith a preface by Reni Eddo Lodge and an introduction by Sara Ahmed Audre Lorde (1934 92) described herself as Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language of speaking to articulate selfhood, confront injustice and bring about change in the world remains as transformative today as it was then, and no less urgent. Your Silence Will Not Protect You brings Lorde's poetry and prose together for the first time.