You know who kids don’t hear enough from in their textbooks and classes? People of color. Specifically, women of color. It’s an egregious and damaging omission and one that needs to stop. If you are an educator (or curious adult) who believes that the voices of women of color should be front and center in our classrooms, we have to start getting creative and bringing in our own resources. Lord knows we can't wait for Houghton Mifflin.
This past week, I was inspired by the role that women of color played in getting out the vote. I was inspired seeing Vice President-elect Kamala Harris break barriers and open doors. I was grateful for my feminism, which has kept my spirit afloat during the dark times of these past four years.
Today I want to share with you an Educator Worksheet on Audre Lorde’s 1981 speech “The Uses of Anger.” Audre Lorde is a Black feminist scholar whose work is accessible to all audiences and just as relevant today as it was when it was originally written. You can use this worksheet to prepare and organize a lesson and discussion around this text for your students. The worksheet has a bunch of discussion questions for your students, as well. I think they will like the reading as much as I do!
Download the worksheet from my Google Drive by clicking here.
As you’ll see, this is only the first educator worksheet in the Learning from Feminism series, so more to come! If you're interested in a student worksheet on anger that incorporates Audre Lorde's readings, I have one available on my TpT shop here.
Please let me know if you find this helpful...and I would love to know what your students think as well! Drop a comment below to share how else you're creatively centering the voices of women of color at your schools!
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