{"id":12114,"date":"2025-12-19T21:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=12114"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:11:24","slug":"the-language-of-survival-recovering-audre-lordes-berlin-dialogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/the-language-of-survival-recovering-audre-lordes-berlin-dialogues\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Language of Survival: Recovering Audre Lorde&#8217;s Berlin Dialogues&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bailey Thomas&#8217; project seeks to recover and publish a set of\u00a0untranscribed recordings and interviews\u00a0from the American poet, activist, and theorist\u00a0Audre Lorde\u2019s 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\u2014including May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Ika H\u00fcgel-Marshall\u2014used her teaching and writing to articulate their own experiences of belonging and exclusion in postwar Germany.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Faculty Research Grant<\/strong><br \/> <strong>Bailey Thomas (Gender &amp; Women&#8217;s Studies)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":12115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f25grants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12116,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions\/12116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}