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Two-part Event on Audre Lorde

Posted by on Monday, April 11, 2016 in Archives, News.

Film Screening: The Edge of Each Other’s Battles: Vision of Audre Lorde? (Part 1)

Wed. April 13th (12:00 pm – 1:00 pm)

Poet, lover, mother, warrior–Audre Lorde was a fiercely passionate American visionary. Her poetry and prose spoke to her deepest convictions–love and anger, civil rights and sexuality, family politics and glories of nature. She gave voice to a political generation and became a role model not only for Black women but for everyone who believes, as she did, that “liberation is not the private province of any one particular group.”

 

BCC Book Club: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Part 2)

Wed. April 13th (5:30-6:30pm)

Lorde asserts the necessity of communicating the experience of marginalized groups in order to make their struggles visible in a repressive society. She emphasizes the need for different groups of people (particularly white women and African-American women) to find common ground in their lived experience. Discussion facilitated by Dr. Phillis Sheppard.

 

Refreshments will be served at both. Contact 615.322.2524 for additional information or visit  www.vanderbilt.edu/bcc

 

We hope that you will join us!