World Made New: Beach Retreat for Feminist Intellectuals of Color
Calling Feminist Scholars of Color! Save the date! Immediately after the 2014 Southeast Women’s Studies Association Conference (SEWSA) in Wilmington, NC Brilliance Remastered will be hosting a retreat specifically for people of color who are engaged in transformative feminist intellectual practice in university, non-profit, artistic and self-made settings. Facilitated by Brilliance Remastered founder and SEWSA People of Color Caucus Chair […]
Whose Beloved Community Opening Keynote
Lex is THRILLED to be speaking alongside trailblazers Mandy Carter and Andrew Young to kick-off the Whose Beloved Community Conference on Civil Rights and the LGBT Movement.
The New Black Screening: NCCU Women’s History Month
Tuesday, March 18th from 6:00 – 8:30pm at North Carolina Central University Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will join award-winning filmmaker Dr. Yvonne Welbon for a discussion of her new film The New Black as part of North Carolina Central University’s Women’s History Month Celebration. http://www.newblackfilm.com/trailer/
Translation/Transmission, Bristol UK (video appearance)
Audre Lorde The Berlin Years: 1984-1992 (2012), with video reading from Alexis Pauline Gumbs http://translationtransmission.wordpress.com/about/ Translation/ Transmission features activist documentaries and women filmmakers from the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain, Jamaica, Palestine, Germany, Vietnam, USA, Iran and France/ Cameroon, highlighting the diversity of different feminisms across geographical locations and historical moments. Screenings will be enriched by discussion from […]
The Other In Ourselves Residency at University of Arizona #blackfeministbreathingtour
register and get more details here: http://arizona.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fc7ec73275fdd7c35d9feea84&id=8c954ca0dc PART I: Between Ourselves: Unpacking Blackness March 7th 2014 MLK Student Center Room 209 (1322 E. 1st Street) 4:30pm to 6:30pm “Once it was easy to know who were my people.” -Audre Lorde This workshop uses Audre Lorde’s “Between Ourselves” to explore “blackness” as a dream, […]
For Survival: A Black Feminist Breathing Ritual University of Guelph
#blackfeministbreathingtour Wednesday March 5th at 6pm Thornbrough 1307, University of Guelph The entire community is invited to this interactive lecture that operationalizes Audre Lorde’s words and work as a resource for creating a cultural shift that values the voices of survivors of sexual violence and reframes our bodies towards justice, autonomy, acceptance and wellness. Opening […]
Black Feminist Breathing: Women’s History Lecture at DePaul University, Chicago
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Young Womyn of Strength Conference: Brooklyn Friends School
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pOCxqaQ66Lrp5mfwp9-EQnuzWMnXpM9d6-m-MHDRbbk/viewform The Diversity Office at BFS is planning a Young Womyn of Strength Conference scheduled for Saturday, March 1, 2014 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. This is an official invite for your school/organization to send one chaperone and a diverse group (5-7) of young womyn leaders or future leaders to the […]
#Redefining Realness: A Conversation with Author Janet Mock
SADLY THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. LOOK OUT FOR ANOTHER COLLABORATION IN THE FUTURE!
Angelic Trouble Maker Flight School: Keynote at Bayard Rustin Symposium at Guilford College
“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. Our power is in our ability to make things unworkable.” –Bayard Rustin Feb. 8th: *Registration begins at 8:30 am 9 am till 2 pm – Workshops and Keynote with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Lunch Provided) 3 pm till 6 pm – Reception, Screening of the […]