Bailey Thomas’ project seeks to recover and publish a set of untranscribed recordings and interviews from the American poet, activist, and theorist Audre Lorde’s time in Berlin between 1984 and 1992. During this period, Lorde taught courses, gave public lectures, and mentored a generation of Afro-German women who would go on to found a movement for racial and gender justice in Germany. Her Berlin years were profoundly influential for both sides: Lorde found new language to describe diaspora, identity, and survival in Europe, while Afro-German feminists—including May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Ika Hügel-Marshall—used her teaching and writing to articulate their own experiences of belonging and exclusion in postwar Germany.