#mayayim

“May Ayim is the pen name of May Opitz; she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German mother and Ghanaian medical student, she was adopted by a white German family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name.”

This year in August, May Ayim, Afro-German poet feminist, will have died 20 years ago. The great black tragedy, reconducted, she jumped from the 13th floor of a building. Let's remember her with this picture of Carrie Mae Weems, holding a place, in Dresden Germany for women who are not always welcome. http://www.blackatlantic.com/5/text/ayim.pdf