In Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde reprinted an interview with this author touching on Lorde’s time teaching at Tougaloo College. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who, upon winning a 1974 award split with Allen Ginsberg, invited Lorde and Alice Walker to collectively accept it for all the women who “go unheard in a patriarchal world.” This author won that award for a collection whose title poem describes “a book of myths in which our names do not appear.”
ANSWER: Adrienne Rich [or Adrienne Cecile Rich]
[10e] Rich and Lorde’s writings often engage with this shared trait of theirs. A 1980 essay by Rich considers the “existence” of people with this sexuality in relation to its “compulsory” counterpart.
ANSWER: lesbianism [accept “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”; prompt on gay or queer or LGBTQ or homosexuality]
[10h] During public appearances, Lorde typically introduced herself with a list of terms, stating that she was a “Black lesbian,” followed by three other designations. Name any two of them.
ANSWER: mother AND warrior AND poet [accept any two answers]
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