it began with Audre Lorde.
it began with Audre Lorde, hardly a ghosted presence. As I followed her through the conferences of the late 1970s, I kept bumping into shadows.
Lorde, relegated to the role of “commentator" on the closing panel of the 1979 Second Sex Conference at NYU “The Personal and the Political” instead delivered The Master's Tools.
Lorde, relegated to the role of “commentator" on the closing panel of the 1979 Second Sex Conference at NYU “The Personal and the Political” instead delivered The Master's Tools.
According to her biographer Alexis de Veaux, Lorde offered a scathing indictment of “papers written by Linda Gordon, Camille Bristow, Bonnie Johnson, Manuela Fraire, and the conference coordinator, Jessica Benjamin — as embodying the limitations of the conference's scope.” [Warrior Poet, 248]
As I track the panelist I realized that two African American women, Bonnie Johnson and Camille Bristow, gave a paper “Both And" [omeka doc link] ... reflections on being black feminists.
As I track the panelist I realized that two African American women, Bonnie Johnson and Camille Bristow, gave a paper “Both And" [omeka doc link] ... reflections on being black feminists.
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