Tag: Audre Lorde

  • slippery positions The State 2013-05-17 Tiana Reid Columbia University As a self-defined Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet, Audre Lorde is the model representative for intersectionality. As such, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches has become a ubiquitous text in undergraduate courses, for the theory and practice of intersectionality; a way to look at what women’s studies…

  • A Lesson from Philadelphia’s Little Film Festival that Could Colorlines: News for Action 2012-08-10 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters For a four-day event that began as a small assortment of screenings, there were plenty of major moments at Philadelphia’s inaugural BlackStar Film Festival last week. Curated in less than a year by producer and filmmaker…

  • To discuss the perspective of race in contemporary German literature, it is worthwhile to focus on those writers associated with the programmatic efforts of the Afro-Germans, a heterogeneous, biracial group of individuals usually of German and African or African American heritage and born since 1945. In 1984 the late feminist author and scholar Audre Lorde…

  • Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention: Call for Papers Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012-01-31 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) will be held at Barnard College in New York City on…

  • Berlin marks Black History Month but the struggle goes on Deutsche Welle 2012-02-16 Anne Thomas Berlin has become more diverse and the situation for Afro-Germans has improved, but it’s still hard to get a job or an apartment. Black History Month highlights the challenges faced by over 2 percent of the population. A black Portuguese…

  • Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Third World Newsreel 2012 84 minutes Germany English/German with English Subtitles Dagmar Schultz 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color,…

  • In recent decades Germany has struggled with the reality of being a multicultural society. The influx of political and economic refugees from Asia and Africa as well as growing friction between resident aliens euphemistically termed “Gastarbeiter” (guest workers) and the German population have created a political atmosphere conducive to neofascist and nationalistic elements expounding xenophobic…

  • Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.

  • Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023) Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Angelo Robinson, Associate Professor of English “Am I Black or White? Am I Straight or Gay? CONTROVERSY?”  Since its founding, and long before recording artist Prince penned these lyrics in the 1980s, America has been a space and a place demanding…

  • Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out Orlanda Frauenverlag (German) 1986 University of Massachusetts Press (English) 1992 ISBN: 0-87023-759-4 Likely out of print. Edited by May Opitz [Ayim] Katharina Oguntoye Dagmar Schultz Translated by Anne V. Adams Foreword by Audre Lorde