Marion Kraft’s Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde: Memory and Resistance

Marion Kraft · Essays, speeches, and interview · 2018 · English; German edition 2021

Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde. Drawing on a personal friendship, Marion Kraft considers Audre Lorde’s literary and political influence through essays, speeches, and an interview. The collection connects Lorde’s writing with Black feminist organizing across national borders.

Why we are reading it

Kraft offers a Black German perspective on the relationships through which ideas, literature, and activism travel. The book belongs alongside Peggy Piesche’s work on Black women’s organizing and the collection Showing Our Colors.

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English: Unrast, 2018 · ISBN 9783897712539. The cover shown is the German edition. Book and edition information.

German edition

Empowerment und Widerstand: Inspirierende Begegnungen mit Audre Lorde · w_orten & meer · June 2021 · 212 pages · ISBN 9783945644249.

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