Spill: Black Feminist Fugitivity in Conversation and Performance

3:30 pm Conversation between Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, East Duke 209, Light Dinner will be provided

7:00 pm Performance of Spill by SpiritHouse, East Duke 209

In Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive practice of relating to the words of Black feminist thinkers. Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily, and otherworldly experience of Black women but also allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory.

Featuring:
~ Hortense Spillers, Black Feminist scholar, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University

~ Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Author of Spill, and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind

~ SpiritHouse, a Durham-based cultural arts and organizing collective performing Spill

~ Ebony Noelle Golden, director of Spill performance, ritual performance artist and cultural strategist, SpiritHouse Member

Sponsored by Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

*This event is taking place on the day of the General Strike and the day before the Women’s March on Washington, we are inviting you to Spill in general. Interactive protest prompts will be available at the event.