Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Your Silence Will Not Protect You brings Lorde's poetry and prose together for the first time.

With 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. [publisher's note]