In 1984, she helped civil rights activist and poet Audre Lorde, whom she got to know at the 1980 UN World Conference on Women in Copenhagen, to become a visiting professor at FU Berlin.
1984 verhalf Sie der Aktivistin und Poetin Audre Lorde, die sie auf der UN-Weltfrauenkonferenz 1980 in Kopenhagen kennengelernt hatte, zu einer Gastprofessur an der FU Berlin.