{"id":59,"date":"2015-02-05T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demolid.com\/heatherhermant\/?p=59"},"modified":"2018-06-14T01:39:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:39:57","slug":"the-contemporary-urgencies-of-audre-lordes-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"The Contemporary Urgencies of Audre Lorde&#8217;s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-59 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=257'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/york-performance-procession04-copy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-257\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-257'>\n\t\t\t\tI Feel Therefore I Can Be Free, a legacy procession for Audre Lorde\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=258'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/york-performance-processions02-copy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-258\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258'>\n\t\t\t\tphotos Jennifer Laiwint\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=259'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/york-performance-procession06-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-259\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-259'>\n\t\t\t\tI Feel Therefore I Can Be Free, photo Jennifer Laiwint\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=141'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06-Hermant_Audre-Lorde-events-01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-141\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-141'>\n\t\t\t\tphoto Heather Hermant\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Above: <em>I Feel Therefore I Can Be Free<\/em>, a legacy procession for Audre Lorde by Heather Hermant and Danielle Smith (backforward collective) with Emma Letki, Drae Walsh, Anique Jordan, Rinchen Lama, T* Felbert and Mika Lior.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-59 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/audre-lorde-portraits.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/audre-lorde-portraits-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-62\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-62'>\n\t\t\t\tIn honour of May Ayim and Audre Lorde\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/audre-livingroom-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/audre-livingroom-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/08-Hermant_Audre-Lorde-events-03.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/08-Hermant_Audre-Lorde-events-03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-139\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-139'>\n\t\t\t\tChinese Lesbian Pop-Up Hair Salon, photo Danielle Smith\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image_1-e1446327623949.jpeg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image_1-e1446327623949-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-264\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-264'>\n\t\t\t\tphoto Heather Hermant\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Above: <em>After the 9 to 5 in Audre&#8217;s Livingroom<\/em> by Heather Hermant and Danielle Smith (backforward collective) featuring Alvis Parsley&#8217;s <em>Falling In Love With Audre Lorde<\/em> walking tour and Melina Young&#8217;s <em>Chinese Lesbian Haircuts Pop-Up Hair Salon Academy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Contemporary Urgencies of Audre Lorde&#8217;s Legacy was a month-long series of events celebrating the legacy of Audre Lorde, co-presented by York University and the University of Toronto. I co-produced these events through my teaching position at York University&#8217;s Community Arts Practice Certificate. I co-created a student multidisciplinary processional performance and series of site-specific actions entitled <em>I Feel Therefore I Can Be Free<\/em> on York University campus with Danielle Smith. Also with Danielle, I co-created <em>After the 9 to 5 in Audre&#8217;s Livingroom<\/em>, a performance installation and poetry marathon in Whippersnapper Gallery that also featured a walking tour by Alvis Parsley and The Chinese Lesbian Haircuts Pop-up Hair Salon Academy by Melina Young.<\/p>\n<p>See a review of these events by M. Jacqui Alexander on page 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgsi.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/WGSI-Newsletter-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to Danielle Smith, M. Jacqui Alexander, Honor Ford-Smith, Gloria Wekker, Alissa Trotz, Jin Haritaworn, Anna Agathangelou, Enakshi Dua, Alvis Choi, Melina Young, Maggie Flynn, Alex Majerus, Saikhou Saho, Akhaji Zakiya, Nik Redman, Natalie Wood, <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Janina Kowalski<\/span>, students of the Community Arts Practice practicum class, and many others for contributing to and seeing these events realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a month-long series of events celebrating the legacy of Audre Lorde, a U of T-York collaboration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,7,2,9,8,5,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}