City of Pearls Book Blessing for Sham-e-ali Nayeem
Please join us to celebrate the release of City of Pearls! With special guests: ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS, MANJU RAJENDRAN and VANESSA HUANG In her debut book City of Pearls, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem’s poetry offers a meditation on healing from grief. The poems ask the reader, what happens when we lose our anchor? Weaving together memories of […]
Poets on Poetry: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ed Bok Lee
Poets on Poetry: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ed Bok Lee When Date April 30, 2019 Time 7 – 8:30 p.m. Location Ramsey County Library – Shoreview4560 Victoria St. N. Shoreview, MN 55126 Get directions Ages All
Being Ocean as Praxis: UNC Chapel Hill
Talk: 12-1 pm in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room Being Ocean as Praxis: Sylvia Wynter, Depth Humanisms and Dark Sciences This interactive lecture will draw on Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s forthcoming book Dub: Finding Ceremony, her research on Sylvia Wynter and her practice of navigating in around and beyond the academy. Workshop from 1:30-3:30 pm in the […]
Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: University of Washington
Walker Ames Room (Kane Hall) Red Square (University Of Washington), Seattle, Washington 98105 The Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics is thrilled to welcome Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs to the University of Washington on Thursday, March 7, 2019. A reception will be held from 5:30-6:30 in the Walker-Ames Room […]
Incomputable Futures: A Symposium on Representation, Computation and Experimental Scholarship
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Luciana Parisi, Nora Khan, Jacob Gaboury and Zach Blas will participate as speakers. https://cmac.duke.edu/ Friday, March 1 and Saturday March 2, 2019 12 PM – Ruby Friday Artist Talk (Lunch) (Optional) 2 PM – Talks Begin 2:00: Nora Khan 3:15: Alexis Pauline Gumbs 4:30 PM – Break (Snacks) 5:00 PM – Keynote: Luciana […]
Dat Black Abundance: 555 Reads
555 Reads consists of 5 poets reading for 5 minutes each. Hosted by Irna Landrum featuring Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nicque Mabry, Mankwe Ndosi, Douglas Ewart, and Anitra Cottledge! Five Watt cafe on Nicollet and 38th Street. Tuesday, February 26 at 8pm Facebook invite here: https://www.facebook.com/events/424840201590172/
The Erotic as Power Symposium: Sexuality and the Black Experience
Update: Register here for free parking for the event! The erotic is often seen as a realm of oppression and danger. But, as Audre Lorde argued forty years ago, it also contains the potential for empowerment and struggle. This tension will be explored as the 39th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series (MTW) […]
Black Feminist Film School Workshop at HAYTI 25th Anniversary Film Festival
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Anew: Jomama Jones at Joe’s Pub
Please join Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs in the AUDIENCE of the ANEW, the Jomama Jones Valentine’s Day concert featuring an opening invocation by Sangodare. Buy tickets here: https://joespub.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2019/Jomama-Jones-Anew/?SiteTheme=JoesPub 425 Lafayette St (bet. E. 4th St & Astor Pl) New York, NY 10003 General Information: 212-539-8778 The Library at the Public: 212-539-8777 Tickets: 212-967-7555 Box Office […]
NWSA: 40 Years After Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activist Engage the Movement for Black Lives
Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be on the following panels during this year’s NWSA Conference in Baltimore, MD. See you there! “Survival is a Promise”: A Workshop on Academic Self-Determination Deviance and/as Defiance, Part 2: Queer Black Feminisms in the Age of Violence Dark Sciences: Collective Dreaming for Transformative Change Black Feminist Praxis and the Origins […]