Question
Audre Lorde’s book Sister Outsider reprints a 1979 interview between herself and this author, in which she touches on Lorde’s time teaching at Tougaloo College. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who shared the 1974 National Book Award in Poetry with Allen Ginsberg. Upon receiving it, she invited Lorde and Alice Walker to collectively accept the prize “in the name of all the women whose voices… still go unheard in a patriarchal world.”
ANSWER: Adrienne Rich [or Adrienne Cecile Rich]
[10e] Rich and Lorde’s writings frequently engage with this shared trait of theirs. A 1980 essay by Rich considers the “existence” of people with this sexuality in relation to society’s assumption that its counterpart is “compulsory.”
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, warrior, and poet [accept any two answers]
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