1. Complex Audre’s relationship with her friend Gennie can be characterized as complex. Throughout the text, their friendship is depicted as a constant push and pull, with moments of closeness and intimacy followed by periods of distance and tension.

Prompt
reading “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography” from pages 3-152, respond to the following: 

1. Characterize (ideally a one-word adjective) Audre’s relationship with one other woman in the text. Use at least one example from the text to explain that characterization.
2. Consider an event represented in the first half of the memoir that is completely outside your personal experience. Reflect on that difference, your reaction to it, and what you can learn from that reaction. 
3.  BONUS: consider moments when the “voice” of the narrator (Lorde) feels particularly palpable. How would you characterize that voice (one word adjective) and why? 
Evaluation Parameters
All discussion posts should be completed with ~500 words (not counting any quotations you include from the reading)