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| Author | Audre Lorde |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | Silver Press |
Publication date | October 2, 2017 |
| Publication place |  United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 230 pp (paperback 1st edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0995716223 |
Your Silence Will Not Protect You is a 2017 posthumous collection of essays, speeches, and poems by African American author and poet Audre Lorde. It is the first time a British publisher collected Lorde's work into one volume.[1][2] The collection focuses on key themes such as: shifting language into action, silence as a form of violence, and the importance of history.[3] Lorde describes herself as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet", and addresses the difficulties in communication between Black and white women.[3][4]
The collection is made up of five sections: a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge, an introduction by Sara Ahmed, 13 essays, and 17 poems, and a Note on the Text. As the Note on the Text states, many of the essays in the collection were given as papers at conferences across the U.S. Further, Lorde often revised early poems and re-published them, so many of the poems in this collection are the latest versions of Lorde's work.[4]
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- ^ "Audre Lorde's 'Your Silence Will Not Protect You' - The White ReviewThe White Review". www.thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
- ^ a b Siddiqui, Sophia (2018-06-29). "Your Silence Will Not Protect YouYour Silence Will Not Protect You By LordeAudre (London: Silver Press, 2017), 230 pp. Paper £12.99". Race & Class. 60 (1): 100–102. doi:10.1177/0306396818771236. ISSN 0306-3968.
- ^ a b "Your Silence Will Not Protect You". Silver Press. Retrieved 2018-08-07.