In recent years, we have witnessed renewed calls for women to embrace anger as a source of power. These voices have Lorde\u2019s \u201cThe Uses of Anger\u201d,\u00a0first delivered at the University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, in 1981,\u00a0to thank for charting an innovative scholarly and poetic terrain that theorizes anger as much more empowering and liberating than conventional discussions of the term typically allow.<\/p>\n
Lorde\u2019s essay redefined anger productively, approaching it as an epistemological tool igniting a desire for self and collective liberation. The result was a remarkable critical reflection that laid the groundwork for deconstructing broader systems of oppression, particularly, heteronormativity, heteropatriarchy, institutionalized racial poverty, racial capitalism, and white privilege. Lorde\u2019s essay moved with precision, centering Black women\u2019s struggles in a world built around the use \u2013 and abuse \u2013 of racialized people subjected to systematic dehumanization.<\/p>\n
In their introduction, Jane Anna Gordon, Elva Orozco Mendoza, and Sherry Zane reflect on the inheritance, lessons, and responsibilities that Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies must grapple with if it is to deepen and fulfill its radical mission.<\/p>\n
Guided by the imperative to look backward to understand the present and forge a future, the book closes with a sankofic interview\u00a0with M.\u00a0Jacqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall,\u00a0conducted by Briona\u00a0Simone Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[630,267,334,326,396,145,138,599,265,335],"product_tag":[],"authors":[647],"publisher":[],"class_list":["post-21651","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-black-women","product_cat-feminism","product_cat-intersecionality","product_cat-lbgti","product_cat-pamphlets","product_cat-political-freedom-security","product_cat-political-science","product_cat-politics-and-society","product_cat-racism","product_cat-thinking-freedom","authors-audre-lorde","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/21651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=21651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}