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Interested in Audre Lorde’s philosophy of education, ecological politics, & why Lorde isn't a proto-TERF? Please read this open access interview I did with Alexis Pauline Gumbs. I added a bunch of explanatory footnotes, and Alexis is amazing as always. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Audre Lorde on the Sacred Scale of Livability: Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Conversation with Caleb Ward...

Audre Lorde on the Sacred Scale of Livability: Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Conversation with Caleb Ward - Volume 40 Issue 2

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You can access it here! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn: Understanding the Paradigm Shift in Contempo...

Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn: Understanding the Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Black Feminist Studies

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Hey, come talk social change & complicity in this event on Audre Lorde's famous statement about "the master's tools"! The talk is on Zoom & in NYC on Tues Aug. 26 at 6pm EDT (sorry for the awkward start time for my ppl outside the western hemisphere) centerforthehumanities.org/e…

Using and Abusing ‘The Master’s Tools’  - Center for the Humanities

Thanks to everyone who gathered to attend in this conversation to discuss Audre Lorde’s poetics and political philosophy. Enjoy the video of this event as well as photos and slides below: Audre...

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Our name on the other site is feministphilosophy.bsky.soci… and the vibes are way way better there. Trust us.
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I'm going to this for sure, and you should too. Helen is such a treasured voice, and has been a lovely interlocutor in my work on Audre Lorde
Brian@ProfJRadisson16 Jun 2025
I'm breaking my Twitter fast to share this for friends and admirers of Helen De Cruz (formerly @helenreflects on here). She been a shining light in our field for so long. This looks like a wonderful way to celebrate her life.
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Excited to hear and support this research!! We need more complex, multi-directional analysis of Black feminist left internationalism, anti colonial struggles, and their legacies
Tereza Hendl@TerezaHendl14 May 2025
On the way to Hamburg to present our work with @DurdiyevaSelbi, taking a look at Angela Davis’ approach to the USSR from the perspectives of societies affected by russian-soviet imperialism. Our paper calls for epistemic reparations and opens complex debates that we need to have
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"Putting yourself on the line is like killing a piece of yourself…” Excited to present this work at SPEP in October, with Andrea Dionne Warmack. If you don't know Andrea's work, look it up! Her compelling framework of "afro-skepticism" pushes back against afro-pessimism
2025 SPEP Panel Submission Black Feminist Philosophy: “Putting Yourself on the Line is Like Killing a Piece of Yourself…” The title of this panel, taken from the words of Audre Lorde, articulates a challenge of survival under overlapping forms of oppression that extends beyond hustling for material subsistence, developing networks of care, and evading predatory institutions: survival requires working toward societal transformation, “seeking a now that can breed futures” for oneself and one’s loved ones. But “putting yourself on the line” for that comes with great costs…

ALT 2025 SPEP Panel Submission Black Feminist Philosophy: “Putting Yourself on the Line is Like Killing a Piece of Yourself…” The title of this panel, taken from the words of Audre Lorde, articulates a challenge of survival under overlapping forms of oppression that extends beyond hustling for material subsistence, developing networks of care, and evading predatory institutions: survival requires working toward societal transformation, “seeking a now that can breed futures” for oneself and one’s loved ones. But “putting yourself on the line” for that comes with great costs…

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Audre Lorde when Berlin students tell her passion in German (Leidenschaft) shares a root with suffering: Now, isnt that interesting! And here you have this crazy Black lesbian poet coming here saying the only way yr gonna survive is living passionately. Living openly IS painful!
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This is what it looks like when you're a lesser Dutch master from the 1630s and you've never actually seen a real dog in your life.
"The Queen of Sheba's Visit to Solomon" by Jan Davidsz. Remeeus (1602–1648)

ALT "The Queen of Sheba's Visit to Solomon" by Jan Davidsz. Remeeus (1602–1648)

Closeup of the absolutely terrifying dog that looks like it's head was taken from the costume discards from Planet of the Apes

ALT Closeup of the absolutely terrifying dog that looks like it's head was taken from the costume discards from Planet of the Apes

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Audre Lorde: You'll be paid well not to feel, not to scrutinize your differences. Paid in insularity, poisonous creature comforts, false securities, in the spurious belief that the midnight knock will always be on somebody else’s door. But there is no separate survival!
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Note that the threat of the midnight knock isn't merely a rhetorical flourish for Lorde. In her early 20s under McCarthyism, her roommate’s mother was deported to Poland bc she had been in the Communist Party & FBI came knocking at Lorde’s door in 1957. Lorde was 23.
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Exciting free online event this Friday Mar 28 w/excellent researchers from our Audre Lorde conference: Megan Behrent talking about her book on politics, poetry & activism in the friendship between Audre Lorde & Adrienne Rich🔥 Moderated by Ju Ly Ban eventbrite.com/e/binding-fri…

Binding Friendship: Megan Behrent Explores Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich

A conversation with Megan Behrent on Poetry & Politics, exploring the friendship, poetry, and activism of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich

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"My inaction is a sieve and the days fall through." Please read this brilliant creative essay by Tobey Ward on early pregnancy, built from a text collage of ambivalent mothering experiences across decades and generations. riverstyx.org/proof-blog/foo…
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Submit by March 15 for our 2025 conference on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice! Conference is Oct. 16-19, beachside near Tampa, FL—our 10th & last event at our original location, before we move to a more politically viable site. philevents.org/event/show/13…
Artwork: "The Phrenologer's Window II" (1966) by Betye Saar

ALT Artwork: "The Phrenologer's Window II" (1966) by Betye Saar

The FEAST program committee welcomes submissions (from within or outside of philosophy) that reflect on the conference theme “Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice” and engage topics including but not limited to: Practicing accountability beyond carceral logic Moving from an ethics of accountability to a politics of transformative justice Forgiveness and assuming responsibility for wrongdoing Compassion, understanding, and healing Privilege and complicity Rethinking oppression from the framework of transformative justice Feminist pedagogies and practicing accountability in the classroom Holding each other accountable in feminist circles Coalition and solidarity building through differences The ethics and politics of citation and naming lineage Calling out vs. calling in Mutual aid, accountability, and transformative justice Abolition feminism Disability justice and crip kinship Restorative justice

ALT The FEAST program committee welcomes submissions (from within or outside of philosophy) that reflect on the conference theme “Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice” and engage topics including but not limited to: Practicing accountability beyond carceral logic Moving from an ethics of accountability to a politics of transformative justice Forgiveness and assuming responsibility for wrongdoing Compassion, understanding, and healing Privilege and complicity Rethinking oppression from the framework of transformative justice Feminist pedagogies and practicing accountability in the classroom Holding each other accountable in feminist circles Coalition and solidarity building through differences The ethics and politics of citation and naming lineage Calling out vs. calling in Mutual aid, accountability, and transformative justice Abolition feminism Disability justice and crip kinship Restorative justice

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Black history is every month, but it's moving to stumble across this picture of WWI soldiers returning to NYC in February 1919, with raised fists in the air The image is in the US National Archive (for now at least) catalog.archives.gov/id/2643…
Archival record: Colored Troops - The famous 369th arrive in New York City. Members of the 369th colored infantry, formerly 15th New York regulars. "Back to little old New York." Photo by Paul Thompson, Feb. 26, 1919

ALT Archival record: Colored Troops - The famous 369th arrive in New York City. Members of the 369th colored infantry, formerly 15th New York regulars. "Back to little old New York." Photo by Paul Thompson, Feb. 26, 1919

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If you are a bay area Cedric Robinson scholar or work with his writing closely, please get in touch. I would love to talk to you about his arguments in Terms of Order and possibly across some of his other texts.
tasha 🌶@tashahpatel18 Dec 2024
In May, I will be hosting a Political Theory workshop commemorating 50 years since Cedric Robinson walked the halls of Stanford Political Science. I hope to see you there! I welcome any suggestions as we prepare for this conversation in the department. politicalscience.stanford.ed…
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Haven't been here much (I'm calebw at 🔵) but every time I drop in I'm depressed to see rly smart ppl totally captured by responding to the worst takes you've ever heard from the same 10-15 discourse-setters on here. "I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by..."
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Like, there's only so many hours of the day! This is robbing us of our ability to have any new ideas!
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When Audre Lorde visited Ghana w/kids & partner Frances, everyone treated her as the maid bc Frances was white. Frances's solution: serve Audre whenever in public—light her cigs, hold open doors for her to sail thru, etc., and ppl went 🤯 thinking the white woman was the maid
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