Never to Dream of Spiders

What responsibility do we have to use our voice? More importantly who is that responsibility to? If we were to follow the example of poet and activist Audre Lorde, the answer would be everyone. Throughout her life Lorde sought for the inclusiveness of all, no matter what colour, preference or ethnicity. She worked tirelessly to ensure that every soul had a voice. Using her own experience in her poetry to illustrate much broader points. In this episode, we look at the poem Never to Dream of Spiders which illustrates her commitment to drawing attention to wider issues even when her world was crumbling around her.You can find a copy of the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42584/never-to-dream-of-spidersThe show notes for today's episode, with full references can be found here: https://wordsthatburnpodcast.com/You can get in touch with me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wordsthatburnpodcast/The music in this weeks episode is Hiraeth by Scott Buckley and is used under creative commons license. Enjoy his music here: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.