Gloria Joseph

Lorde was among the first and most outspoken voices to call out the vestiges of white supremacy and genocidal action that remained in Germany, and one of the first poets from the Western world to read her poetry in East Germany after the wall fell.

In her final months, she and Gloria Joseph co-authored a public letter to the German chancellor about the Nazi tendencies emerging in the violence against immigrants post-Cold War.

Audre Lorde would remain part of this place.

According to Dagmar Schultz, she and several of the women Lorde influenced, including the writers and activists Mai Aim, Ika Hügel-Marshall, and Ilona Bubeck, scattered a packet of Lorde's ashes, along with flower petals and shells from St. Croix, all around the lake, rowing in this same inflatable boat.

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So then to talk about both of those sets of objects, the, the, the stones, the reason I actually created images of them in the first place, so, so these are stones that are from this area near where Audre Lorde and Gloria Joseph lived in St. Croix.

And when I was there just assisting Dr. Gloria Joseph with creating the, the bioanthology, The Wind is Spirit, but also just, just in her grace actually, and her, and her generosity of her inviting me to be there with her for a little while.