Caleb Ward
@calebw
The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde, coming soon! Postdoc at Uni Hamburg Photo from 1999 Life is impermanent and so are reposts.
Betye Saar was a visionary artist and human being. This 1966 piece is called The Phrenologer's Window, and I can't stop thinking about it. She will be missed
I yearn for a world where US protests were covered by news media the way the Italian press is covering this 🥹 No “protests turned violent”. No “clashes between protesters and police”. Just telling it like it is: people protesting within their rights, and police attacking them for doing so.
I just read this nonideal agency conference CFP and my eyes narrowed like, “wait, who’s organizing this mysterious event directly in my area?” Then I saw the list of speakers and I’m one of them 🤦🏻♂️ Anyway, it’s very exciting so submit and come hang with me and @quillkukla.bsky.social at Graz!
I wish she went more into detail about her problems with that book, but pretty sure she’s thinking of it when she writes this in “Age, Race, Class and Sex” a few years later
Citation: unused interview for Peter Adair’s 1977 film Word Is Out, which exists as video recording and transcript in the San Francisco Public Library. All love to archivists and librarians there and everywhere🦉
Lorde refuses the goal of public acceptance or entry into a straight American mainstream. She's a Black lesbian, a woman, a mother—her goal is to win what she calls a “war of survival” for all aspects of herself & for future generations: "seeking a now that can breed futures"🌱 Anyways, happy Pride
🏳️🌈 Pride for what? An interviewer for one of the first LGBT rights documentaries in 1976 asked Audre Lorde to tell her coming out story. She detonated the question from the inside:
"If I could make one true, quiet photograph, I would much prefer it to having a lot of answers." (Consuelo Kanaga)
Seems like shit is very bad out there, but I just bought 2 kilos of cherries for ten bucks so AMA
I played a gig last weekend for the first time in years and years. My kids came. It was fun. 🎈
This is what drove Frederick Douglass to break with Garrisonian abolitionism, which tried to use him as evidence to convince white audiences of the horrors of slavery. Instead he insisted Black ppl must address audiences on their own terms and demand recognition of their rightful agency.
There are infinite faces freedom wears. The Blackened Alphabet by Nikky Finney👇
Excellent feminist philosophy gesticulating going on when these two philosophical powerhouses came together in Frankfurt this week. Lovely to get to sit in and talk anti-oppression philosophical methods with @serenekhader.bsky.social and @manongarcia.bsky.social 🖤
These 19 poems form the poetic fingerprint of my reading of Audre Lorde. Her poems profoundly deepen understanding her essays, and some insights are only dealt with here. And yes, this means I've gotten all publisher permissions now, and the book is ready to go into production 🎈
The Audre Lorde-ification of Habermas memorialization? 🤔🤔 (Translation: “nobody is really free until everyone is”) The quote is actually originally from Fannie Lou Hamer, but apparently Habermas said this too at one of his final lectures in Frankfurt.
For people interested in the neoliberal dysfunctionality of the "excellence" model for funding higher ed in Europe, read this from the academic staff council at my university. My university is "excellent" but broke (with downstream effect that ppl like me have no jobs)
Audre Lorde has some powerful poems grappling with failures of her white husband to really *get it* about what survival meant for her & for their Black children—to be part of their solution, not their problem. audrelordetraducida.blogspot.com/2019/01/conc...