by Dagmar Schultz

Audre Lorde, Worlds Without End: Audre Lorde as Mother of a Black Queer Speculative Future

Tues-Thurs May 29-31, 2018

6pm-9pm Eastern

Audre Lorde has not been celebrated as a founding figure of speculative literature, but she is.  Her mentorship of Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories a Black lesbian feminist vampire novel that travels through time into a a dystopic and transformative future is just one major act in a writing and activist life that was characterized by creating possibility and connection where there seemed to be no future and by imagining mothering as an impact on the future that went beyond patriarchal forms of parenting or reproducing.

This intensive will look at some of the queerest, spaciest, most futurist and fantastical works by Audre Lorde as a resource for the ongoing Black feminist work of queering the future and will explore the connections between Lorde’s work and the work of Gomez, Octavia Butler, Janelle Monae and most importantly those of us involved in the intensive.

This online intensive is for people who see daughtering as a queer non-binary futurist work that is accountable for excavating the (sometimes suppressed) queerness of our collective history. We will activate Lorde’s legacy to queer our own understanding of our families, our futures, our freedom and our far-flung fields of influence.  (Some of this work will be based on the essay “Speculative Poetics: Audre Lorde as Prologue for Black Queer Futurism” which was published in The Black Imagination in 2013.)

Tuition for this three day online intensive is sliding scale $125-275.   All possible payment plans are available. Just let me know.

This intensive is limited to 9 participants.

Reserve your spot with a $50 (non-refundable) deposit here: 

Send an email to brillianceremastered@gmail.com with your intentions (dreams) for the course by May 20th.

This intensive is part of the M is for M/othering Ourselves Webinar Series, celebrating the release of M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs on March 9th 2018.  This webinar series offers a deep dive into the key concepts of Audre Lorde’s work as a queer regenerative resource.