ABSTRACT
In the offered reading of several essays by Audre Lorde alongside current German diversity texts, a second critical actualization will be forged, which, again, is not the same as finding continuity and progression toward the 'better' and 'new' version of a concept, nor is it a simple appropriation or illegitimate co-optation of critical concepts by a neoliberal logic of government in diversity discourse. This chapter focuses on one particular thread in the virtual archive of what tends to be summarized as 'Black feminism'. The engagement with Lorde's texts allows a more complex and 'untimely' reading, enabling various connecting points to the question of diversity. Lorde provides a twofold approach to the question of difference in 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference', a paper she delivered at Amherst College in 1980. Lorde's notion of poetry is a connecting practice that brings together pragmatic concerns of everyday-experience with aesthetic practice, and an ethics of solidarity and change.
