Octavia’s Brood: Visionary Fiction and Radical Hope: Moon Palace Books
10/11/2014 3:30 pm Autumn Brown and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, two of the contributors to the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements will share excerpts from their short stories, honor the memory and legacy of Octavia Butler and share how the practice of visionary fiction has impacted their hopeful activist work in this crucial […]
Where Have You Been All My Life?: An Intergenerational Black LGBTQ Event in the Twin Cities
Friday Oct. 10th 7pm The Exchange 3405 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407 Audre Lorde – Joseph Beam – June Jordan – Melvin Dixon – Marlon RiggsCome join Alexis Pauline Gumbs of the Mobile Homecoming Project (www.mobliehomecoming.org) to share stories about intergenerational Black queer resilience and liberation. Mobile Homecoming focuses on collecting and amplifying the social […]
Black Lesbians United Annual Retreat
As usual Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace will be facilitating and participating in magic at the annual Black Lesbians United Retreat in Malibu, CA. For more information and to register for this amazing retreat visit: http://blacklesbiansunited.org/
Fannie Lou Hamer Birthday Party!!! Durham, NC
Let’s get ready for Fannie Lou Hamer’s 96th birthday with a community celebration. Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind invites you to eat cake, dance to a special freedom playlist, informally learn about insights Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs learned in Fannie Lou Hamer’s archival papers, and play a new interactive black feminist game called “Legacy” that is […]
Wine and Wisdom Wednesday Happy Hour: Alexis Pauline Gumbs as Featured Mentor
At 9pm EDT Brilliance Remastered founder Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be featured talking about her work to create a paradigm shift in community accountable scholarship on Wine and Wisdom Wednesdays! Log in to listen at 9pm EDT: http://mysisterskeeper.co/live/
The Shape of My Impact: Virtual Conversation on Survival and the Academic Industrial Complex
“I love the word survival, it always sounds to me like a promise. It makes me wonder sometimes though, how do I define the shape of my impact upon this earth?” – reflection cut from an early draft of “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred and Anger” by Audre Lorde (Audre Lorde Papers, Spelman College […]
Black Feminist Breathing at the Monument Quilt’s Women of Color Tent: Baltimore
As part of the Women of Color Tent Programming at the Monument Quilt project to create public space for healing by and for survivors of sexual violence the organizers of the Women of Color Tent will be offering Black Feminist Breathing meditations and activities designed by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs based on the transformative work of Ida B. […]
Black Feminist Breathing at the Monument Quilt Project’s Women of Color Tent: Durham
As part of the Women of Color Tent Programming at the Monument Quilt project to create public space for healing by and for survivors of sexual violence the organizers of the Women of Color Tent will be offering Black Feminist Breathing meditations and activities designed by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs based on the transformative work of Ida B. […]
We Can Make Something Out of Anything: A Workshop for Visionary Women at Rastafari Indigenous Village, Jamaica
With an exciting fusion of the Mother/Ourselves curriculum and her Pressed for Knowledge workshop, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be collaborating with a visionary group of women at the Rastafari Indigenous Village on the Montego River in Jamaica on an all-day workshops. The participants will create a unique publication together during the workshop and participate […]