Audre Lorde, "was a Caribbean-American writer, radical feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist". Her scholarship and poetry gave me words to understand the politics of domination, they helped me adequate frame the argument that diasporic peoples are still suffering a (forced) (dis)placement, when we do not broaden the definition of area studies to include the forcing of bodies in space that is outside the notion of "refugee" we are complicit in the violence created by such categories. Area studies have long been spaces of erasure within the coloniality of knowledge, giving certain narratives more space to be heard and excluding other entirely, it is through this lens of social/intellectual responsibility that I approach this project.

Links to Audre's work online:
Sister Outsider
I am your Sister

Another critical archive of knowledge that I participated in, shared, and used to begin critical dialogue with persons was The Feminist Wire's Audre Lorde Forum held in the spring of 2014