Conversation

Reading Audre Lorde in Community with The Audre Lorde Reading Group

Fri, Nov 20, 2020

6:00 PM–8:00 PM

This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register below.

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Since Fall 2019, a group of predominantly femme and gender non-binary folk of colors in New York City have been reading Audre Lorde’s biomythographies, essays, poetry, and teaching archives, as well as engaging with writers in kinship with Lorde’s work. Join Nimo Ali, Joy Gutierrez, Suzanne Herrerali Puma, Jillian White, T Wilkins (The Audre Lorde Reading Group) who will share reflections, resources, and stories from our collaborative learning process, with the intention to encourage further reading groups to bloom.

Click hereto reada reflection and more about the Audre Lorde Reading Group “Surviving and Speaking Out: Reading Audre Lorde in Community”from reading group member Spencer Garcia discussing their experience reading Lorde’s work in the group.

The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY seeks to build on the legacy of radical, de-colonial, anti-racist pedagogies at CUNY. A former CUNY educator, Audre Lorde’s teaching methods and practices are central to this legacy, and her vital work as a poet and activist continues to model survival and living for Black / queer / feminist readers. Following from the publication of a selection of Lorde’s syllabi and other teaching materials in Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, co-facilitators Jillian Lane White and Conor Tomás Reed formed the Audre Lorde-focused reading group “Your Silence Will Not Protect You!” Throughout four sessions, this group of twenty participants approached Lorde’s work from their own experiences, applying the power of her teaching / writing / radicalism to the process of elaborating study in community. This group was sponsored by a Humanities New York Reading & Discussion Grant, Lost & Found : The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and the Center for the Humanities.

From “Audre Lorde: “I teach myself in outline,” Notes, Journals, Syllabi, & an Excerpt from Deotha” published by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and Edited by Miriam Atkin and Iemanjá Brown

This event is organized as part of Conor Tomás Reed’s residency at Wendy’s Subway, Radiating Black~Puerto Rican~Feminist Studies from the City University of New York to the Americas and the Caribbean, and is co-sponsored by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

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Sobre el evento

Este es un evento en línea y se llevará a cabo en Zoom.
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Este evento incluirá subtítulos inglés en vivo.

Desde el otoño de 2019, un grupo de predominantemente femenina y no binaria de género gente de colores en la ciudad de Nueva York ha estado leyendo las biomitografías, ensayos, poesía y archivos de enseñanza de Audre Lorde, así como interactuando con escritores afines con el trabajo de Lorde. Compartiremos reflexiones, recursos e historias de nuestro proceso de aprendizaje colaborativo, con la intención de animar a que prosperen más grupos de lectura.

Más sobre el grupo de lectura aquí.

Este evento se organiza como parte de la residencia de Conor Tomás Reed en Wendy’s Subway, Radiando Estudios Afro-descendientes~Puertorriqueñxs~Feministas de la Universidad Pública de Nueva York a las Américas y el Caribe.