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Visiting the Archives at Spelman

During Spring Break, I went to the visit the archives to see the Audre Lorde papers at Spelman College. In Box 1.1.002, I found a card Lorde received from her daughter Beth for Mother’s Day. This object interested me because I am interested in mother-daughter relationships and I had already seen some of the cards and correspondences between Shange and her daughter Savannah in the Shange papers in the archive at Barnard.

If I had to write a caption for this object it would read: