On Being “Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing:” Black Women Poets You Should Know LRR, March 1, 2015February 8, 2025 Audre Lorde, a famous black lesbian feminist poet, ends her poem “A Woman Speaks” with the lines, “I am/woman/and not white.” What may come off as obvious or overly simplistic in this statement actually speaks to larger structures of power that operate within feminist and anti-racist movement discourses. By claiming… Continue Reading