The Fullness: Mobile Homecoming’s Daylong Institute at Creating Change
The Fullness: A Daylong Workshop on Holistic Erotic Power and Sexual Liberation “that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.” -Audre Lorde Uses of the Erotic/The Erotic as Power The Fullness will be an intergenerational interactive […]
Residency at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Havana, CUBA
In January 1985 Audre Lorde went to Cuba as part of a National Black Writers exchange along with other writers and artists including Alexis DeVeaux, Toni Cade Bambara, Jayne Cortez, Gloria Joseph, Mari Evans and Rosa Guy. This January Lorde scholar/disciple Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be following in Lorde’s footsteps when she goes to Cuba on a people to […]
Renewable Resources: Queer Kwanzaa Retreat
Save the date for Mobile Homecoming’s Queer Kwanzaa Retreat in Durham, NC December 26 2013 to January 1st 2014. We are excited to bring in the new year with you with celebratory reflection on the principles of harvesting a Queer Black Future! We practice Queer Black Kwanzaa in the tradition of our elders including Karibu […]
Guardian Dead: Ancestor Accountable Intellectual Practice
Why? “You, then, are charged by the possibility of your good health, by the broadness of your vision, to remember us.” -Melvin Dixon “I write not only for my peers but for those who will come after me, to say I was there, I passed on, and you will pass on too. But you’re here now […]
QBG: Quirky Black Girls Google Hangout
Calling all QBGs! We love you and we want to see your faces! We are doing it again! Participate in our second monthly casual virtual QBG gathering via Google+Hangout. This is a space to affirm each other and remind ourselves how awesome a force we are on the planet. There is no agenda…just open space […]
Lucille Clifton and the Poems of Our Past Lives: November 23rd Finding Poems Retreat
Saturday November 23rd 10am-4pm Durham, NC (registered participants will get the location info!) Many people do not know that the great poet Lucille Clifton was also in communication with other worlds. In her archived papers there are several proposed manuscripts of books that talk about her communication with the dead. Based on Lucille Clifton’s dream […]
Parable Potluck #4: Octavian Prophecies for Our Time
Black and Brown visionaries of Durham and the surrounding area, Earthseed Collective (a group of black and brown visionaries transforming our relationship to land and resources) and Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind invite you to a series of potlucks designed to work through the insights and challenges of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the […]
National Women’s Studies Assoc. (NWSA) – Keynote
Alexis will speak at the featured plenary addressing the 34th Annual National Women’s Studies Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The conference will take place November 7-10 2013 at the Cincinnati Netherland Plaza. The Title of the Plenary is Changing the Subjects: Remaking the Futures of the Feminist Past. Alexis will speak along with Nan Alamilla Boyd (San […]
Poetry Workshop at LaVenson Press Studios (Durham, NC)
Alexis will lead a poetry workshop called “Blue Airmail Letters: The Impossible Poem Home” 9am-12pm on November 2nd, 2013 at LaVenson Press Studios located in Hillsborough, NC (near Durham, NC). Alexis says of the workshop: SYLVIA WYNTER, a brilliant Jamaican thinker, defines the poetic as our human way of attempting to say what the circumstances […]
Colgate University – Coming Out Month Keynote by Mobile Homecoming
Alexis and Julia will deliver an interactive keynote for Colgate University’s Coming Out Month celebration on October 30th, 4:30-6pm on Colgate’s campus in Hamilton, NY.