Professional Woman

Ana Mendieta, Silueta en Fuego, 1976

In her own words, Audre Lorde was a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Lorde began writing poetry at age 12 and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine at age 15. She helped found Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the world’s first publisher run by women of color, in 1980. Her poetry was published regularly throughout her life and she served as the State Poet of New York from 1991 to 1992. Lorde explored issues of class, race, age, sex, and – after a series of cancer diagnoses — health, as being fundamental to the female experience. She died of liver cancer in 1992.

[decode the hidden symbolism here]

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) dir. Tobe Hooper

The Chessmaster (SNES, 1991)

love me, leave me

courreges camera

Everything else is ‘frivolous’.

starry.eyed.stitcher

Modupeola Fadugba — Four Friends, One Reflection (acrylic, ink, and metal leaf, on canvas, 2023)

Morocco.Fez.Artisanal arts and crafts