Gloria Joseph

Gloria Ida Joseph (1927/1928 – August 6, 2019)

Early life and education Born Gloria Ida Joseph to Daniel Joseph and Ida David Joseph, they emigrated from Saint Croix to New York City, where Joseph was raised. Later she received her master's degree in Psychological Services at City College of New York and then worked as a guidance counselor in New York City. Joseph also founded the radical Che Lumumba School for Truth in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa, an advocacy and fundraising group for women in Soweto.

After her retirement from Hampshire College in the 1980s, she moved back to St. Croix with her life partner Audre Lorde, and continued to write and lecture at various universities as a professor emerita for another two decades. She and Lorde discussed the project extensively before Lorde's death. The anthology-biography received a 2017 Lambda Literary Award and the Association for Women in Psychology's 2017 Distinguished Publication Award.

Personal life Joseph was a lesbian. Joseph later had a long-term relationship with Afro-German Helga Emde that lasted over 20 years until Joseph's death.

Works Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives (with J. Lewis). 1986, South End Press Hell Under God's Orders: Hurricane Hugo in St. Croix – Disaster and Survival (with H. Rowe and A. Lorde). 1990, Winds of Change Press On Time and In Step: Reunion on the Glory Road. 2008, Winds of Change Press The Wind is Spirit: The Life, Love, and Legacy of Audre Lorde. 2016, Villarosa Media