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Audre Lorde is a poet, novelist,
activist, and mother of two.

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She grew up in
Harlem in the 1930s.

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She's the author who coined
a turn by lithography

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in her seminal book Zami;
A New Spelling Of My Name.

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Audre Lorde defined
biomythography

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"as a literary form
that blends elements

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of autobiography, the novel,
and personal mythology."

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Lorde was a critic of
second-wave feminism helmed

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by white upper,
middle-class leaders.

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She believed that gender
oppression is inseparable

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from other forms of oppression.

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She similarly advocated for
a multi-dimensional view

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of individual identity.

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Lorde, asserted that communities
too are built of differences

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and that we should
embrace the difference.

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You need to begin
with a movement, which

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is what Black Power in the
Civil Rights movement was.

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Then immediately
within it, you are

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going to get those people
whose differences are not being

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articulated, which is right us.

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So then there is
immediately another step.

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Typically, the basic
structure for an autobiography

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is that you pick a story
you want tell, devise

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a quick timeline of
events, divide events

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into subsections or chapters,
add events and details

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to each section, conduct
some contextual research,

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think about where you want to
begin, choose a writing style,

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and then you begin writing.

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A biomythography, weaves
myth, history, and biography

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in epic narrative.

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Its job is to
expand perceptions,

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exposing more multi-faceted,
dimensional and mutable

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considerations of identity.

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Implementing biomythography
as a studio practice

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provides a challenge to
critical historical practices.

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We use multi-mediated and
interdisciplinary platforms

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to investigate historical facts,
life experiences, pop culture,

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and mythology;
challenging, forming,

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and informing our history,
display, anthropology,

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identity, and ritual, as well
as personal universal and

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institutional perspectives
and histories.

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Through developing a series
of curatorial projects,

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contextualizing the visual
arts within biomythography,

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Wimbley Christian work
as context providers

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for critical dialect.

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Addressing the nuances within
ever-shifting identities,

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and how we experience and
create our contemporary world

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and culture.

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