Audre Lorde Biopic in the Works
Late lesbian poet lived in New York City
BY MATT TRACY
The late New York Citybased
lesbian poet,
activist, and professor
Audre Lorde will be the
subject of a forthcoming biopic, according
to an exclusive report published
by Deadline.
Lorde, who was born in Harlem
and called Staten Island home for
more than a decade, was previously
featured in documentaries
such as “The Berlin Years,” which
highlighted her time in living in
Germany, as well as “The Life and
Work of Audre Lorde.”
The bopic will be called “The Erotic,”
which is inspired by Lorde’s own
essay, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic
of Power,” which confronted western
perspectives of eroticism and
reframed the term in a way that related
to women’s power, consciousness,
spirituality, and other themes.
The late Audre Lorde will be the focus of a new biopic, “The Erotic”
Numa Perrier, the director of “Jezebel,”
will produce and star in the
fi lm. The biopic does not yet have a
timeline for production.
“Audre Lorde lived fully, loved
fi ercely and used her words as both
weapon and salve. We seek to honor
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her in an intimate yet bold way,”
Perrier said, according to Deadline.
Perrier’s House of Numa Productions
and Livia Perrier’s Brazile Productions
will team up on the fi lm.
“House of Numa is dedicated
to the centering of Black women
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who have so often had to work on
the fringe yet still impinge society
in a powerful way such as Audre
Lorde,” Perrier added.
Lorde rose to become a key voice
in civil rights activism and participated
in the 1979 National March
on Washington for Lesbian and Gay
Rights. She fell in love with libraries
at an early age, leading her to
work as a librarian at Mount Vernon
Public Library in the 1960s.
Lorde, who received her bachelor’s
degree at Hunter College and
her Master’s Degree at Columbia
University, went on to become a
tenured English professor at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Her Staten Island home, which
was located at 207 St. Paul’s Avenue,
was landmarked by New York City
two years ago. She lived there with
her partner and two children for a
decade starting in the early 1970s.
Lorde died in 1992.
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