Queer Icon Audre Lorde Turned Her Trauma Into Art

by Sophia StephensThe writing about the sexual assault is brief, candid, and strangely calm—far, far away from the fear that was festering in my chest.E.E. ŠKAREDÁ
It was hot and stuffy in that college classroom, but that wasn't why my hands were sweating. My fingers were wrapped in a death grip around a tattered copy of Audre Lorde's book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
That day in 2015, my ethnic literature studies class had read how a young Audre Lorde was sexually assaul