Mary Lu Lewis

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  • Date Range: 9-28-1975
  • Collection Summary:
  • Description: Womanist observer Mary Lu Lewis interviews Audre Lorde in her hotel room after the Broadside Press 10th Anniversary Celebration, September 1975.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: Audre Lorde bio: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/audre-lorde
    Michelle and Mary Lou had only known each other two weeks at that point.

    Michelle Citron is an award-winning media artist whose work includes Cocktails & Appetizers, Mixed Greens, and As American As Apple Pie (collected at www.queerfeast.com) and Daughter Rite, Parthenogenesis, What You Take For Granted…, Leftovers, and Lives:Visible. She is the author of the award-winning book, Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. Her work explores the lives of women as well as ethnic identity. She’s screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, as well as festivals worldwide. Her films are distributed by Women Make Movies.

    Mary Lu Lewis would describe herself only as "a womanist observer."
  • Genres: Interview, Documentary
  • Subjects: Audre Lorde, Lesbian, , Feminism, Poetry
  • Places: Detroit, Michigan
  • Creators: Mary Lu Lewis, Interviewer
    Michelle Citron, Cameraperson
  • Collaborators & Participants: Audre Lorde
    If you appear or can identify anyone at the opening party or if you know the whereabouts of the other interviews Mary Lu Lewis and Michelle Citron taped during Broadside Press' 10th Anniversary in 1975, please get in touch with us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org
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  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) hols all rights
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  • Preferred Citation: Mary Lu Lewis Collection