Tribute to Audre Lorde

A Litany Of Survival

Tribute to Audre Lorde
A Documentary Screening and Reading

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
6:30-8:00pm -- Rocky 300

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) has been intrinsically important to the development of second wave U.S. feminism. Author of 15 books of pros and poetry, including her autobiographical Cancer Journals, in which she courageously wrote about her mastectomy and her decision to pursue alternate treatment when the cancer recurred. She was poet Laureate of New York State from 1991-1993. She consistency challenged racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia, serving as a catalyst for change within and among social movements, in which she herself participated: Black Arts and Black Liberation, Women's Liberation, and Lesbian and Gay Liberation. A staunch internationalist, she connected women across the U.S.A., the Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. She died in 1992 after a courageous 14 year struggle against breast and liver cancer.

Come join the Women's Center, WOCA, and BSU in celebrating Lorde's life and work, and in remembering those whose battle with cancer continues.