All posts tagged "TFWPraisesTheLorde"
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Afterword: Standing at the Lordean Shoreline
In the name of the known and unknown ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand… Today is the end of TFW’s global forum on Black Lesbian...
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Continuing the Celebration: Feminist Studies Celebrates Audre Lorde
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
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AUDRE LORDE — THE ETERNAL QUESTION
By Kalamu ya Salaam During the tumult of the seventies, in publications such as The Black Scholar and black World, I engaged with and eventually...
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Three Degrees of Connection
By C.C. Carter It’s what happens when generation “the studied” meets generation “the studier”—connection. We, some two thousand plus miles a part from each other,...
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Mockeries of Separation (a poem)
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
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Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. [VIDEO]
A feminist is someone who is actively involved in the struggle against sexism. It’s as simple as that. That’s the bottom line. If you can’t...
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Audre Lorde and Spelman College
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
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Personal is Political: Tribute to My Teacher and Friend Audre Lorde
By Melinda Goodman My writing is meant to be spoken out loud. My presence and the presence of the audience creates a sort of vibration...
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Broken Mothers, Shattered Daughters: For Women Who Have Loved and Survived [Trigger Warning]
By Amoni Thompson Broken mothers raising shattered daughters reflecting familiar suns. Little black girls like me were always in some kind of trouble. Whether we...
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Personal is Political: Speaking Power to Truth: Conversations With Sisters Around Audre Lorde
By El Jones “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me....
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The Battle Against Misogyny at Spelman College
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
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Audre Lorde Comes to Spelman College Archive 2009
By Opal Moore “I must always be/ building nests in a windy place” . Audre Lorde, “Portrait” . “Conduct your blooming in the noise...
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POSTSCRIPT: a love note
By Michelle Parkerson “Don’t mythologize me.” Audre Lorde (from the documentary, “A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL”) Consider this a love note never sent, Audre, for that...
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Love Note for Audre Lorde
By Jennifer Abod Audre was the first black lesbian feminist that I saw in the flesh. I had discovered her several years before in a...
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Dear Audre:
By J. Bob Alotta Preface. There is a framed poster of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich in my office. It is a poster for a...
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Audre Lorde’s Year in Italy / L’ anno di Audre Lorde in Italia
By Margherita Giacobino Editors Note: We are grateful to Italian feminist lesbian activist, organizer, and author Roberta Padovano for making us aware of this important...
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Collective, Reflective Conversation on Community, Liberation
by Sappho Fulton and Ness white This conversation was one part of my and Sappho’s joint multilayered and interdisciplinary performance assigned for Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s...
