"Just as Black German women, both straight and queer, co-founded ISD, they also rallied together to establish ADEFRA, a new women’s organization. Under the auspices of ADEFRA, these women created diasporic, feminist, and intellectual spaces and communities, while affirming their sexualities and identities. They imagined new political possibilities for themselves and the community and pursued spatial politics that centered gender, sexuality, and race. These Black German feminists were also indebted to Third World and/or Women of Color feminists (Audre Lorde, Gloria Joseph, and others) and the global sexual revolution of the late 1960s and the 1970s. Embracing intersectional politics, Black German women insisted on a space within white German feminist and queer discourses. They built on, responded to, and challenged mainstream white German feminists who still ignored the impact that overlapping systems of oppression had on Black women and Women of Color in the nation. As such, ADEFRA emerged as a Black queer feminist project that produced different modes of political action and gave Black feminism room to evolve and thrive in society."

— Mobilizing Black Germany by Tiffany N. Florvil