In New York Head Shop and Museum, Audre Lorde details not just an affinity but an affection for socialist and civil right movements and especially of anti-Vietnam war efforts and racial disparities she witnesses and experiences living in New York. Her use of Marxism in its application to early theories of intersectionality and black feminist literature absolute paint the picture for a piece of the back bone for empowering literature critical of the politics against Black and brown communities and the people residing in them – very much establishing a loving relationship in just identifying people in their everyday lives, that itself contributing to the state of domestic politics then and now.
