{"value"=>"<p>The Professional series documents Clarke's involvement with various LGBT and feminist organizations, including the ASTRAEA National Lesbian Action Foundation, the CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), the Geraldine Dodge Foundation's Poetry Festival, and New York Women Against Rape. She was an active member of these organizations and her contributions are represented by the correspondence, planning materials, and programs in the Organizations subseries. The Conferences and Events subseries contains material related to Clarke's participation in Black feminist organizations and writers' conferences, and include handwritten notes, correspondence, meeting minutes, programs, and promotional material for Black Feminist Retreats, Black Women Writer's Today, OutWrite, the Womyn of Color Forum, the NYC Celebration of Queer Culture, and Fire and Ink. Of note are a typewritten copy of Audre Lorde's \"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action\", delivered at the Modern Language Association's \"Lesbian and Literature Panel\" in 1977, as well as Clarke's Audre Lorde Memorial Lecture at the 1996 OutWrite Conference. The series also includes files from her administrative career at Rutgers University; correspondence with her publisher, Nancy Bereano of Firebrand Books, other editors and publishers; and various letters of commendation and invitations to events.</p>"}