Wild Child: Transforming Intergenerational Trauma into Power and Action (a writing workshop on Audre Lorde’s Birthday!)
an all-day writing retreat facilitated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Sign up coming soon.
Revolutionary Mothering: Revolutionary Mothering: Radical Caretaking as Essential to Creating Revolutionary Communities
Thursday, February 9, 2017 9:00 am to 10:15 am Marquis Salon 7 & 8, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two Revolutionary Mothering: Radical Caretaking as Essential to Creating Revolutionary Communities. (Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Lisa Factora-Borchers, TK Karakashian Tunchez, Autumn Brown) Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer Black feminists of the 1970s and […]
Revolutionary Mothering and Queer Survival–University of Washington Law School
Revolutionary Mothering and Queer Survival: A Reproductive Justice Perspective on Current Legal Realities. Gates Public Service Law Speaker Series Learn about the legal system’s relationship to family through the lens of incarceration, race and queerness. Join activists working at the intersections local and nationally for a discussion on critical sites of reproductive injustice and community-generated […]
Affect & Audience in the Digital Age: Activist Poetics-University of Washington
The symposium Activist Poetics examines notions of activist poiesis and activist poetics to investigate the intersections between digital activism, contemporary experimental writing and performance, and new media practices. This symposium includes a public performance shaped by the engagements of our participants. #Blacklivesmatter, #sayhername, #blacktranslivesmatter: these hashtags are incantations, poetic phrases used to mobilize social movements […]
Evidence: Envisioning A World Free From Sexual Violence, Appleton, WI
Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs will lead an interactive lecture ab0ut creating a world free from sexual violence. Fox Valley Technical College, Riverside Campus 11:30 AM Fox Valley Technical College/Appleton 1825 North Bluemound Drive Appleton, WI 54912