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In Audre’s Footsteps makes a timely and invaluable contribution to the growing canon of the emerging field of Black German Studies. Not only do the authors provide an academic audience with rich and illuminating “kitchen table” conversations that reveal the perspectives of Black and BIPOC feminist scholars and activists in Germany, they are also gifting the diaspora community of Black Germans by articulating living history in a manner that is accessible and empowering to non-academic readers. Importantly, in the spirit of Audre Lorde, this book helps to dispel societal myths that linger on both sides of the Atlantic and dauntlessly exposes the ethical and institutional challenges inherent in scholarly activism.

Dr. Rosemarie Peña

President, Black German Heritage and Research Association

In Audre’s Footsteps is a celebration and honoring of the long-term, groundbreaking, grassroots activist and scholarly intersectional work to uncover hidden narratives in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Heidi R. Lewis and Dana Maria Asbury provide readers with an engaged, non-voyeuristic view of their global, Black feminist-centered table where members from minoritized communities in Berlin and the U.S. gather. This beautiful collection of intergenerational conversations underscores the power of storytelling and how it is both radical activist movement-building and intellectual rigor. Lewis and Asbury, with former student Jazlyn Andrews, provide readers with a divine gift that is an embodiment of Audre Lorde’s words, “Without community, there is no liberation.” May the circle be unbroken.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Producer/ Director, NO! The Rape Documentary

Editor, Love WITH Accountability

This book has opened a space of conversation for me. I read it in one sitting and will keep it at hand from now on, just beside Audre Lorde’s essays, for whenever I need support and inspiration.

Dr. Elisa Diallo

Author of Französisch verlernen

Rights Director at Schöffling Verlag

In Audre’s Footsteps makes profound contributions to Black and transnational feminist studies, providing a picture of Germany many readers likely haven’t encountered before. In centering Black women and women of color, this work asks us to take seriously what transnational and intersectional readings illuminate about power and resistance. This book is an important example of Black transnational feminist work that values reflexivity, reciprocity, and is attentive to lived realities. Because of that, Dr. Lewis continues to inspire my interrogations of transnational connections to be made in Germany and will inspire interrogations of these hidden spaces and hidden narratives for years to come.

Judy Lynne Fisher

Ph.D. Student, Purdue University

In Audre’s Footsteps is a testament to Audre Lorde and the diverse women of the Black German movement, past and present. Black German women’s intimacy and vulnerability in the volume reflect the affective practices and politics that not only helped to sustain them, but also guided their activism and movement. Lewis and Asbury offer a bold contribution that complicates discussions on race, racialization, gender, and history in Germany. It is a unique volume that is not only generative and powerful, but important and timely!

Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil

Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico