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, “The Personal and the Political,” of the 1979 Second Sex Conference at NYU instead delivered what would become 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 ... reflections on being black feminists." I listen to Lorde, and realize she acknowledges her relationship to the two women" consider how Bonnie and Camille were even asked to do a paper at this conference. ... why were two phone calls to me considered a consultation am i the only sources of names of black feminists in this country?" (0:01-0:23)
As I track the panelist I realized that two African American women, Bonnie Johnson and Camille Bristow, gave a paper “Both And ... reflections on being black feminists." I listen to Lorde, and realize she acknowledges her relationship to the two women" consider how Bonnie and Camille were even asked to do a paper at this conference. ... why were two phone calls to me considered a consultation am i the only sources of names of black feminists in this country?" (0:01-0:23)
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