AUDRE LORDEThe Academy of American Poets states Audre Lorde was born in 1934 in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College in 1959 and two years later completed her Master's Degree in Library Science at Columbia University. Lorde left her job as a Librarian after her first volume of poetry First Cities was published. This led her to become a notable African American poet and essayist. Lorde used her battle with breast cancer and liver cancer in her writings. Lorde for some time was married to a white man whom she had two children with, but she self described herself as a Black Lesbian Feminist after she met her long-term partner. Lorde won many awards for her writings and became a professor of English and was the New York poet laureate until she died from cancer in 1992 (Academy of American Poets, 2017).
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Kimberlé CrenshawCynthia Gordon states Kimberlé Crenshaw was born in 1959 in Canton, OH. She graduated from Cornell University in 1981 with a Dual BA in Government and Africana Studies. She also attended Harvard Law School where she received her Juris Doctor degree in 1984. She then went on to get a Masters of Law from the University of Wisconsin a year later. She is famous for her creation of the term "intersectionality" which she created due to the lack of cohesiveness between the race and gender studies taught in her college curriculum. Crenshaw is now a part of the faculty at UCLA where she has been nominated for Professor of the year twice. She has written many books and has been recognized for her many contributions in law, race and social justice (Gordon, 2011).
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