Tag Archives: Audre Lorde

A Tragic Repetition of Racist Patriarchal Thought: Learning from Sister Outsider

28th September 2021The Library of the FutureAudre Lorde, Dream of Europe, Simone de Beauvoir, Sister OutsiderMinus Plato

Women today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women […]

A New Solitude in the Stacks

26th June 2020Uncategorized10th Berlin Biennale, Àbadakone, Alex Jovanovich, Ali Toure Farka, Amanda King, Amber Ford, Amir Berbic, and other stories Chicago Architecture Biennial, aneducation, Aristide Antonas, Aruna D'Souza, Audre Lorde, Banu Cennetoğlu, Candice Breitz, Carnegie International, Clare Butcher, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Library, Contemporary And, Cornelius Cardew, Dale Harding, Elizabeth Emery, Front International, Gennadius Library, Igo Diarra, Isuma, Jamal Cyrus, Joar Nango, Kelekela! Library, Kerry James Marshall, La Medina, LaTanya S. Autry, Learning from Timbuktu, les gens d’Uterpan, Léuli Eshrāghi, Libraries, Like Wind on Rushes, Lucius Burckhardt, Luis Jacob, M. Carmen Lane, Maria Eichhorn, Marta Minujín, Material Matters Library, Michael Rakowitz, MOCA Cleveland, Paulo Friere, Peppermint, Pope. L, RA Washington, Rasheed Araeen, Rose Valland Institute, Ross Birrell, Sepake Angiama, Sharjah Biennial 14, Shezad Dawood, Spaces Cleveland, Studio 14, Tamir Rice, Tamir Rice Foundation, Taveres Strachan, The American Library, The Empty Days Library, The Parthenon of Books, The Unfinished Exhibition, Third Text, Tools for Learning, Toronto Biennial, Under the Mango Tree, Vincent Tao, Whisper into a Hole, Yinka ShonibareMinus Plato

Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]

To whom do I owe the woman I have become? 2018: Mickalene Thomas I Can’t See You Without Me

23rd April 2020UncategorizedAntwaun Sargent, Audre Lorde, Johanna Burton, Me as Muse, Mickalene Thomas, New Museum, the gallery B side, Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a weaponMinus Plato

I can’t recall too many moving image works installed in gallery B, but even if I could, I don’t believe any could compete with the intensity of Mickalene Thomas’ 12 monitor video installation Me as Muse (2016) included the 2018 exhibition Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me. For the earlier (2017-2018) exhibition Trigger: […]