“it is better to speak...” – An experiential workshop and conversation rooted in Audre Lorde’s Berlin years
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Sat, Sep 19
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"it is better to speak..." is a Black feminist poetry workshop modeled after Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany for Survival” and grounded in her travels to and teachings in Berlin, Germany. This program is led by Precious Chika Musa and presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Boston.
Sep 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
"it is better to speak..." is a Black feminist poetry workshop modeled after Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany for Survival” and grounded in her travels to and teachings in Berlin, Germany. As a Black lesbian feminist poet, warrior, and mother, Audre Lorde crafted a global exchange of ideas, love, and survival strategies in service to individual and collective liberation. A few questions sit at the center of this gathering: what does it look like to survive* together? What might we learn from those whose backgrounds and contexts differ from our own, but whose freedom is linked to ours? How might our differences complement our livelihoods? For Lorde, poetry becomes a serious site of possibility, a way for all people, and Black women in particular, to know themselves and each other. Poetry–as written word and embodied practice–is capable of creating and sustaining alternate realities.
The workshop is designed to offer participants
JustBook-ish
"it is better to speak..." is a Black feminist poetry workshop modeled after Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany for Survival” and grounded in her travels to and teachings in Berlin, Germany. This program is led by Precious Chika Musa and presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Boston.
Sep 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
"it is better to speak..." is a Black feminist poetry workshop modeled after Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany for Survival” and grounded in her travels to and teachings in Berlin, Germany. As a Black lesbian feminist poet, warrior, and mother, Audre Lorde crafted a global exchange of ideas, love, and survival strategies in service to individual and collective liberation. A few questions sit at the center of this gathering: what does it look like to survive* together? What might we learn from those whose backgrounds and contexts differ from our own, but whose freedom is linked to ours? How might our differences complement our livelihoods? For Lorde, poetry becomes a serious site of possibility, a way for all people, and Black women in particular, to know themselves and each other. Poetry–as written word and embodied practice–is capable of creating and sustaining alternate realities.
The workshop is designed to offer participants
