Film
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde + Me Gritaron Negra
- 7PM
Intro by Lana Lin (Filmmaker/Author and Associate Professor, Media Studies, The New School)
Dir. Ada Gay Griffin, Michelle Parkerson
1995, 90min, Digital
Audre Lorde speaks about her extraordinary life and career, from her fearless work to advance womanist and civil rights causes to her poetry, which gives voice to society’s most marginalized. As one of the first figures to argue for the importance of intersectional feminism, Lorde was an ahead-of-her-time thinker whose ideas resonate as strongly as ever.
Dir. Torgeir Wethal
3min, Digital
Video documentation of a thrilling performance, excerpted from the documentary Victoria—Black and Woman (1978).
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