The Toronto Women's Bookstore organized a commemorative tribute to Audre Lorde on Tuesday February 25. Several artists and activists read from her work.
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A commemorative tribute to Audre Lorde, strong Black lesbian, poet, feminist, mother and warrior who passed away 11 years ago of cancer. The evening included a screening of the film "The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Life and Vision of Audre Lorde" by filmmaker Jennifer Abod, available through the Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1G4, ph: 416-922-8744 info@womensbookstore.com
Readers:
"The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" Read by Helen McKnight, a womanist, Third World woman, originally from Trinidad. She's been a journalist for over a decade, focusing on quality life issues including but not limited to dignified working conditions, a living wage, and social justice across class, gender, race, sexual preference and national origin.
"Poetry is not a Luxury" and "Now" Read by Crystal Perryman-Marks, known as Isis, founder of www.phemlounge.com. Like Audre Lorde, Crystal is a Grenadian-descended mother of two, fierce warrior poet and writer. Her life's work is women and the arts and she has been greatly affirmed by the work life and legacy of Audre Lorde. Crystal has recently been published in "Mothering in the African Diaspora" and "Turbochicks".
"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" From the Cancer Journals After dabbling in student politics and international development education in 70s, Robin Buyers came of age as an activist in the women's movement of the early 80s. Her academic interest in women's literature and culture led her to the 1988 International Women's Bookfair in Montreal where she had the opportunity to meet Audre Lorde and her life partner Frances Clayton at a forum on Women and Power. Robin now teaches in the Community Worker Program at George Brown College. When she discovered Audre Lorde's "The Cancer Journals", it helped her to understand her experience of losing her mother to breast cancer.
"Inheritance His" Laura Blaise was born in Etobicoke in 1982. She expeirenced single parentage as a half Jamaican, quarter Italian and quarter white girl in the suburbs. She dances, sings, acts and performs. She is a young, wise, spiritual, bisexual, multiracial woman.
Hanadi Loubani is a Palestinian-Canadian born to Palestinian parents, both of whom were dispossessed to Syria and Lebanon when their native villages were destroyed in 1948. She is currently working on her PhD at York University in the Department of Sociology. For some time now she has been occupied with exploring enabling modes of remembering Palestine in the work of Palestinian women artists in exile. Hanadi is also an activist working for Palestine.
"Sister Outsider" Vickie McPhee is a sixth generation African-Canadian. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and came to Tornoto in the late 1970s. She is always keen to create space for marginalized voices and help fight their struggles in real and meaningful ways. Based on her multi-lived and living experiences with racism in Canada, Vicki's struggle is that of all downtrodden peoples, for true justice and liberation.
"BetweenOurselves" "Stations" "Now that Iam forever withchild" Read by Carla Ribeiro, who has spent many years working in the women's movement in Toronto. She has been repeatedly inspired by Audre's life and work, particularly her message of agency, responsibility and humanity.
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