Audre Lorde Interview Series
A series of interviews with Black feminist theorists and scholars on the thought and philosophical legacy of Audre Lorde.
Organized and conducted 2022 to 2024 by Caleb Ward and funded by the Hamburg Zentrum Gender & Diversity.
Interview with Kristie Dotson
Distinguished philosopher Kristie Dotson talks about survival, how and why we do philosophy, letter-writing as a means of grappling with philosophical inheritance, and the importance of asking the "bearer questions" of reproductive justice prior to the questions of survival and a new generation.
Interview with SchwarzRund
Afro-Caribbean-German author and activist SchwarzRund (Melina Morr de Pérez) talks about Lorde's political philosophy and praxis, poetry, visions of community (and its limits), and the significance and tensions around Lorde's work for disability and trans politics.
Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Writer, poet, educator, organizer, and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs discusses Audre Lorde’s spirituality, her ecological political praxis, her pedagogy, and the cross-generational scale of social change.
Interview with Amber Jamilla Musser
Black feminist theorist Amber Jamilla Musser talks about sensation and feeling, pleasure and pain, excess and the crisis of cancer in Lorde's work and beyond.