The Audre Lorde Great Read

In Spring 2021, Nicole Flores, Francis Merencillo, Matt Caprioli, Lise Esdaile, Sarah Ohmer, Mary Phillips, and Olivia Loksing Moy came together to co-organize The Audre Lorde Great Read at Lehman College. From February to May, we invited Lehman faculty, staff, and students to read with us and explore the impactful ouvre of Audre Lorde, drawing connections not only to the inequalities made starkly apparent by the Black Lives Matter movement and in the midst of the pandemic, but also linking and reminding ourselves of a very important history of labor movements, black intellectual thought, community-based pedagogy and ethics of care, and queer feminisms that have been rooted in many of our CUNY campuses. Affiliated instructors assigned monthly readings across courses in English, Sociology, Women’s Studies, Latino/Latin American Studies, and more. Four monthly events featured international panelists, including Queer Black and Latinx scholars from Colombia and Brasil, as well as distinguished faculty from Hunter College and talented student poets and writers from right here in the Bronx.

Click the poster below to explore our full Audre Lorde Great Read portal, designed and maintained by students Nicole Flores and Frances Paul Merencillo.

All Audre Lorde Great Read website and content was designed by Nicole Flores and Francis Paul Merencillo.