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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Audre Lorde’s Legacy, 9 October 2025

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde 
by Alexis PaulineGumbs.
Penguin, 511 pp., £14.99, August, 978 0 14 199620 2
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... renewed attention to her work but has also, at times, had the effect of de-contextualising it. Alexis Gumbs’s biography, Survival Is a Promise, considers Lorde’s legacy as much as her life. Alexis De Veaux’s Warrior Poet, published in 2004, was a more traditional biography, though her account ended in ...

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