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many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law

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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde home page feature many young black women createdA Time Must Read Book of the Year Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus