Lessons from Audre Lorde's The Uses of Anger: UCONN Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at 50 Bayard Taylor Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic

Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes

making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself

With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race

and now she's back living with her mother in her old hometown

the humiliation and anger he felt after getting kicked out of his private school

Lessons from Audre Lorde's The Uses of Anger: UCONN Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at 50 Bayard Taylor Maggie Nelson experiments with poeticAudre Lorde's now classic, "The Uses of Anger," was first delivered at UCONN, Storrs in 1981. One of two keynote lectures, it offered Lorde's address of the National Women's Studies Association conference topic of "women responding to racism." In their introduction, Gordon, Orozco Mendoza, and Zane reflect on the inheritance, lessons, and responsibilities that UCONN Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies must grapple with if it is to deepen and