Lessons from Audre LordeÕs The Uses of AngerAudre Lordes now classic, The Uses of Anger, was first delivered at UCONN, Storrs in 1981. One of two keynote lectures, it offered Lordes address of the National Womens Studies Association conference topic of women responding to racism. In their introduction, Gordon, Orozco Mendoza, and Zane reflect on the inheritance, lessons, and responsibilities that UCONN Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies must grapple with if it is to deepen and fulfill its