Zami originated a new discursive space for more complex renderings of black women’s lives…With this reframed identity at its center…Zami posed Lorde’s identity and sexuality as fluid aspects of her transnational blackness, rooted both in migration between ‘there’ and ‘here’ and in the ‘there.—Alexis De Veaux
Alexis De Veaux’s book Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde just recently won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Non-Fiction. Other winners include Maryse Conde who won the award for fiction for Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?, Chris Abani who one the award for best fiction debut (Graceland) and Tracey Price-Thompson who won for contemporary fiction. The awards are handed out every year by the Hurston/Wright Foundation whose mission is to “develop, nurture and sustain the world community of writers of African descent.”
I’ve known Alexis for 13 years—she was my dissertation director—but even more importantly she has been an incredible role model for me and has largely been responsible for any claims I make on a black feminist manhood. I am so happy that she is getting all the recognition she deserves for her thoughtful, loving, and critical examination of Audre Lorde.
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