{"id":20973,"date":"2012-02-28T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20973"},"modified":"2014-08-18T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T00:40:49","slug":"audre-lorde-the-berlin-years-1984-to-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20973","title":{"rendered":"Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twn.org\/catalog\/pages\/cpage.aspx?rec=1323\" target=\"_blank\">Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twn.org\" target=\"_blank\">Third World Newsreel<\/a><br \/>\n2012<br \/>\n84\u00a0minutes<br \/>\nGermany<br \/>\nEnglish\/German with English Subtitles<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dagmarschultz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dagmar Schultz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9mPEkqykAik?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9mPEkqykAik?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>2012 marks the 20th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audre_Lorde\">Audre Lorde\u2019s<\/a> passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde\u2019s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, feminist and LGBT social justice movements in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992<\/em>\u00a0 explores a little-known chapter of the writer\u2019s prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification.<\/p>\n<p>Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while challenging white German women to acknowledge their white \u00a0privilege. As Lorde wrote in her book <em>Our Dead Behind Us: Poems<\/em>, \u201cIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992<\/em> contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz\u2019s personal archive, showing Lorde on and off stage. With testimony from Lorde&#8217;s colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Lorde&#8217;s lasting legacy in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>See the\u00a0<em>Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992<\/em> Study Guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audrelorde-theberlinyears.com\/studyguide\/AL_studyguide_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Third World Newsreel 2012 84\u00a0minutes Germany English\/German with English Subtitles Dagmar Schultz 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde\u2019s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde\u2019s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,28,666,125,8,842,25],"tags":[3228,2954,9816,2951,2948,9137],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-europe","category-gaylesbian","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-videos","category-women","tag-afro-germans","tag-audre-lorde","tag-berlin","tag-dagmar-schultz","tag-germany","tag-third-world-newsreel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}