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Alexis De Veaux

Alexis De Veaux
Alexis De Veaux is the author of multiple books, including Spirits in the Street (1973), Don’t Explain (1980), and Warrior Poet (2004), a biography of Audre Lorde that received the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award (2004), the Lambda Literary Award for Biography (2004), and the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award, Nonfiction (2005). She also wrote the children's books Na-ni (1973) and An Enchanted Hair Tale (1987). She has collaborated with the visual artist Valerie Maynard and poet Kathy Engel on the digital project, “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been Terrorized?” and co-founded Lyrical Democracies, a cultural partnership aimed at communities interested in working with poets to enhance existing social projects, with Kathy Engel.


Stonewall’s Black Leaders and the Loneliness of Searching for Ancestors

Alexis De Veaux on the Creation of the Stonewall Story
June 19, 2019  By Alexis De Veaux
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