This Bridge Called My Back Brunch: Durham, NC
J. Cardinal Events presents This Bridge Called My Back Saturday August 13th 2pm-3:30pm Click here for location and more info. Join us in commemoration of Black August as we explore the work of Cherrie Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldua titled This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Facilitator, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, will lead a […]
Revolutionary Mothering Book Talk at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro
hosted by Greensboro Queer People of Color Collective Thursday, August 11th at 7pm at Scuppernong Books (304 S. Elm Street, Greensboro, NC 27401) A part of Queer People of Color Collective programming Queerly Beloved an lgbtq literature circle invites everyone to join us and welcome Alexis Gumbs to Greensboro as she will share with us […]
Revolutionary Mothering Revival Residency: Presented by New Orleans Wildseeds
Community Book Center 2523 Bayou Rd, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Wildseeds: The New Orleans Octavia Butler Emergent Strategy Collectivein Collaboration with Alexis Pauline Gumbs Presents: A REVOLUTIONARY MOTHERING REVIVAL RESIDENCY From August 8-9th, 2016, Black feminist love evangelist Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be joining the Wildseeds’ REVIVAL year of radical Black feminist self-possession for […]
Wind and Warrior Retreat, Mississippi
Sista Docta Lex will be attending the Wind and Warrior Retreat in Magnolia Mississippi. You should too! Find out more here: http://www.windandwarrior.com/
The Difference Between Poetry and Rhetoric: Responding to Police Violence
“The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready…” -Audre Lorde in “Power” Thursday August 4th 6pm-9pm EDT. Online. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-difference-between-poetry-and-rhetoric-responding-to-police-violence-tickets-26877479264 We have recently heard quite a lot of rhetoric, during an election cycle where (thanks to intentional organizing and horrific acts of harm caught on video) police violence cannot be ignored. And we have […]
Queer Black Sunday School Choir Practice
At Queer Black Sunday School: Choir Practice we engage the possibility of Black Feminist collective singing using Black Feminist texts as source material and sacred text. We also engage gospel and congregational songs and think critically about THE MEANING WE MAKE when we sing the words. We are reclaiming the resilience tools of our ancestors […]
Nobody Mean More: Online Workshop for Intellectuals/Educators and Artists Responding to Police Violence
We are out in the streets. We out of words to describe this. We are walking in circles. We are out of our minds. We are out of our bodies. We are everywhere. And we are nobody. And it hurts. This course is for those of us who are scholars, writers and artists who […]
Free Enterprise: Towards an Autonomous Sustainable Writing Life (After Michelle Cliff)
Free Enterprise: Towards an Autonomous Sustainable Writing Life (After Michelle Cliff) July 11, 12, 13th 9am PST, 12pm EST The late Jamaican black lesbian feminist genius Michelle Cliff wrote a historical novel about Mary Ellen Pleasant aka Mammy Pleasant, a freedom-fighting radical who collaborated with John Brown and also funneled escaping enslaved Africans through a […]
Write This In Fire: An Online Workshop for Flamboyant Writers in Memory of Michelle Cliff
On June 12, 2016 on the same day as the Pulse massacre, we lost the genius, jamaican, black feminist lesbian author Michelle Cliff. In honor of Michelle Cliff and her legacy and all of our unkillable queer of color flamboyance this one-night webinar is for writers who want their words to make the impossible possible, those […]
Anguilla: A Literary Jollification
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is proud and pleased to be a featured author at the 2016 Anguilla Literary Festival. Click here for all festival details: http://anguillalitfest.com/index.php/program/