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The Black Studies PodcastAlexis Pauline Gumbs - Poet, Scholar, and Troublemaker, Durham, North CarolinaThis is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s discussion is with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a scholar and poet living and working in Durham, North Carolina. In addi...2025-04-2147 min
For The WildEarthly Reads: Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Survival Is a Promise S1:5In the fifth episode of our Earthly Reads series, we dive into a conversation with the renowned Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. This episode offers a preview of the live Earthly Reads Book Study, now available for purchase at forthewild.world/bookstudy.Throughout the conversation, Gumbs threads together her thoroughly-researched and deeply-felt knowledge of Audre Lorde with her own personal wit, observation, and openness. She also speaks to her understanding of Lorde’s work as “geological,” following the connection Lorde draws between Blackness and our existence at every...2025-02-2534 min
The Deep DiveEpisode 214: Survival is a Promise w/Alexis Pauline GumbsPhilip welcomes poet/writer Alexis Pauline Gumbs to the show to discuss her book Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, a biography of poet, writer, educatpr Audre Lorde. In their conversation, they explore Audre Lorde’s like, work and legacy and the incredible resonance she continues to have to generations of thinkers and explorers.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop:
Line of Duty (Prime)
Alexis’s Drop:
Blink Twice Spe...2025-02-201h 02
The Worms PodcastAUDRE LORDE SPECIAL: Opening up a can of worms with ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBSAlexis Pauline Gumbs is a writer, poet, independent scholar, and activist. Their latest book is titled Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Book mentioned: Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
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Cosmogramme#2 | Undrowned, black feminist lessons from marine mamals - Alexis Pauline GumbsCosmogramme #2 :Eloge de la submersion, une proposition de Dénètem Touam Bona à la Compagnie, lieu de création, avec le soutien de la Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso.Ce projet de recherche-création archipélique, « Cosmopoétiques du refuge », se déploie en une série d’escales constituant autant de « cosmogrammes » : des espace-temps visant à proposer d’autres versions de la « réalité » – des sub-versions – via une réhabilitation de la puissance des rêves, de la poésie et de l’utopie en acte, tout cela en « correspondance » avec la recherche scientifique la plus contemporaine. 2024-12-1652 min
La Maison de la PoésieAlexis Pauline Gumbs – Non-noyéesLecture par Marie-Julie Chalu
Entretien avec l’autrice et ses co-traductrices, Myriam Rabah-Konaté et Mabeuko Oberty, mené par Amandine Nana
Interprète : Valentine Leÿs
Dans les profondeurs de l’océan, une symphonie silencieuse se déploie. Les mammifères marines – baleines, dauphins ou otaries – naviguent dans les eaux bleues, témoins silencieux de la beauté et de la fragilité de notre planète. Inspirée par ces créatures majestueuses, Alexis Pauline Gumbs explore les intersections entre le féminisme noir et l’écologie, deux mouvements politiques puissants qui convergent vers un objectif commun : la justice sociale et environnementale.
En s’ap...2024-12-121h 57
La Maison de la PoésieAlexis Pauline Gumbs – Non-noyéesLecture par Marie-Julie ChaluEntretien avec l’autrice et ses co-traductrices, Myriam Rabah-Konaté et Mabeuko Oberty, mené par Amandine NanaInterprète : Valentine Leÿs
Dans les profondeurs de l’océan, une symphonie silencieuse se déploie. Les mammifères marines – baleines, dauphins ou otaries – naviguent dans les eaux bleues, témoins silencieux de la beauté et de la fragilité de notre planète. Inspirée par ces créatures majestueuses, Alexis Pauline Gumbs explore les intersections entre le féminisme noir et l’écologie, deux mouvements politiques puissants qui convergent vers un objectif commun : la justice socia...2024-12-121h 57
Le podcast de So Sweet PlanetAlexis Pauline Gumbs et son livre d’une justesse et d’une beauté époustouflantes : "Leçons Féministes Noires apprises auprès des Mammifères Marines". 🌱 Merci de soutenir mon travail sur Patreon ou sur PaypalÉcoutez l’interview d’Alexis Pauline Gumbs, mettez-vous (vraiment) sur Pause et cliquez sur Lecture ! 😉Il est rare d’être surpris.e à ce point par une lecture, par une écriture. Rare d’être remué.e par la beauté d’une pensée, d’une phrase, au point d’en avoir les larmes aux yeux. Non noyées est un manuel de dénoyade, un guide pour respirer, refaire surface, nager dans les grandes profondeurs pour mieux reprendre de l’altitude, se libérer des anciens modèles, s’extraire du...2024-12-021h 03
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regenerationAlexis Pauline Gumbs: Echolocation as a practice of collective careWhat can we learn from marine mammals in their practices of echolocation? What is the difference between identification as a colonial tool of control and separation, versus identifying with as an invitation to expand and blur boundaries? And how do Audre Lorde’s poetic dreams of survival continue to reverberate during our times — helping us to reorient the ways that we show up for ourselves, for our communities and our planet?In this episode, we are honored to welcome Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist, an aspirational cousin to all life, and the author of U...2024-11-2753 min
Stars and Stars with IsaAlexis Pauline Gumbs: Gemini Sun, Aquarius Moon, Cancer RisingSelf-described “Black Feminist Love Evangelist,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs has been widely praised for her incisive thought and inspired prose. The author recently released her new book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Alexis is the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, and the book illuminates Lorde’s understanding of survival on a changing planet. Isa Nakazawa sits down with Alexis to discuss her and Lorde’s relationship to their fathers, what it means to mother and how her chart reflects the same breadth and depth as her writing.
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Ability RadioExploring Audre Lorde's Legacy and Impact - Episode 44 with Guest, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Author of "Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde"In this captivating episode of Ability Radio, host Amelia Headley-Lamont from the Disability Rights Center of the Virgin Islands welcomes a special guest, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Dr. Gumbs, a renowned author and self-proclaimed queer black feminist love evangelist, discusses her latest work, "Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde."
The conversation delves into Dr. Gumbs' unique perspective as an "aspirational cousin to all life," emphasizing the interconnectedness of all beings. She shares insights into her writing process, inspired by the multifaceted life of Audre Lorde, a literary icon known for her profound exploration...2024-11-0927 min
LA Review of BooksAlexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde"Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. A deeply researched and impressionistic biography of one of the most iconic figures of 20th century Black, queer, and feminist thought, Survival Is A Promise is a love letter to Lorde, pushing past her broad circulation in social media memes, inspirational quotes, and other forms of contemporary iconography. Gumbs’ book locates the tectonic forces Lorde at once brought into view and moved through herself.
Also, Rumaan Alam, author of Entitlement, returns to recommend Visitors by Anita Brookner.2024-10-181h 06
LARB Radio HourAlexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde"Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. A deeply researched and impressionistic biography of one of the most iconic figures of 20th century Black, queer, and feminist thought, Survival Is A Promise is a love letter to Lorde, pushing past her broad circulation in social media memes, inspirational quotes, and other forms of contemporary iconography. Gumbs’ book locates the tectonic forces Lorde at once brought into view and moved through herself. Also, Rumaan Alam, author of Entitlement, returns to recommend Visitors by Anita Brookner.2024-10-181h 06
KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat BrooksAlexis Pauline Gumbs on the Eternal Life of Audre LordeWe’re joined by Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist and aspirational cousin to all sentient beings Alexis Pauline Gumbs. She is the author of several works of poetry and of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. We’re discussing her latest book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is in the Bay Area this week.
See the various events listed below:
https://events.berkeley.edu/events/event/270794-reading-of-survival-is-a-promise-the-eternal-life
https...2024-10-151h 27
Book ShamblesAlexis Pauline GumbsIf you've heard Robin at any point in the past few years, you've probably heard him singing the praises of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' book Undrowned. So when she was briefly in the UK recently with her new book, Survival Is a Promise, we just had to catch up for a chat! Support the show by subscribing at patreon.com/cosmicshambles2024-10-1446 minBook ShamblesAlexis Pauline GumbsIf you've heard Robin at any point in the past few years, you've probably heard him singing the praises of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' book Undrowned. S o when she was briefly in the UK recently with her new book, Survival Is a Promise, we just had to catch up for a chat! Support the show by subscribing at patreon.com/cosmicshambles.2024-10-1446 min
Renegade ConversationsBear Hebert is a RenegadeMy next guest is an artist, anti-capitalist business consultant and social justice educator. Welcome to Season Four, Episode 20 of Renegade Conversations.
Join Bear Hebert and I (host Meryl Cook) for this very insightful conversation. I hadn't known very much about anti-capitalist business before my friend Anita Kirkbride (who is an anti-hero social media consultant) suggested I should connect with Bear. And I'm so glad I did!
If you've ever struggled with how to align your personal values with corporate culture, or being in business you will want to tune in to this episode. And wait unti...2024-10-0432 min
New Books in BiographyAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
New Books in Women's HistoryAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
New Books in Critical TheoryAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
New Books in African American StudiesAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
New Books in GenderAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
New Books in Literary StudiesAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
New Books in Intellectual HistoryAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
New Books in American StudiesAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a...2024-09-1955 min
Due SouthState treasurers' race; Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde; 'Black Defender'A look at the State Treasurer’s race in North Carolina. WUNC's Colin Campbell joins Jeff Tiberii to discuss the race and candidates. Leoneda Inge chats with Durham-based poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs about her latest work, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Leoneda Inge chats with Dr. David Washington about his debut graphic novel, Black Defender: The Awakening.2024-09-1150 min
The Feminist PresentEpisode 54: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and The Eternal Life of Audre LordeThis week, we have the incredible Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the show. Her newest work Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is a biography that offers a new understanding of the life and work of Audre Lorde. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives and this work illuminates a new perspective on the enduring impact of Lorde and her work. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist. She is a poet, writer, scholar and activist ba...2024-09-041h 17
Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis HemphillSurvival Is A Promise with Alexis Pauline GumbsIn this week’s episode, we gather to honor the luminous legacy of Audre Lorde through the lens of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' radiant new book, Survival Is a Promise. Alexis joins us to unveil the journey of crafting Audre's biography, a tribute to the vibrant pulse and power of Audre’s words and practice. Together, we revel in the profound lessons Audre imparted on us about survival, courage, and love.Alexis’ new book is available now, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and you can follow her work here @alexispaulineYou ca...2024-08-2645 min
Your Library on the Go With Free AudiobookSurvival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Audiobook by Alexis Pauline GumbsListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 729443
Title: Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrator: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17:41:48
Language: English
Release date: 08-20-24
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Literary, Social Science
Summary:
This program is read by the author.
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center...2024-08-205h 41
New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSurvival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline GumbsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Narrator: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024 Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre’s fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents, to reach you, wh...2024-08-2005 min
Dive Into a Story With the Power of Full AudiobookSurvival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Audiobook by Alexis Pauline GumbsListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 731604
Title: Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrator: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17:41:34
Language: English
Release date: 08-20-24
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, History & Culture
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024
Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audres fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split...2024-08-205h 41
The ZAMI NOBLA PodcastAlexis Pauline Gumbs Speaks on Her New Audre Lorde BiographyAlexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Book Reading Information: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/survival-promise-eternal-life-audre-lorde-homecoming-celebration-alexis-pauline-gumbs-and Book Reading Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/survival-is-a-promise-the-eternal-life-of-audre-lorde-tickets-938622193247?aff=oddtdtcreator A queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and a prayer poet priestess, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs was the first scholar to research the Audre Lorde Papers at Spelman College, the June Jordan Papers at Harvard University, and the Lucille Clifton Papers at Emory University during her disserta...2024-08-121h 27
How to Survive the End of the WorldA Motherful World with Alexis Pauline GumbsYou know we love Alexis Pauline Gumbs here at HTS, so we're so excited to present her episode from a show we recently discovered. It's called Mother is a Question.
MIAQ is an invitation into the depths of mothers’ hearts, minds and stories. Join best friends Julia Metzger-Traber and Tasha Haverty as they crack open definitions of motherhood and listen for the unspeakable through playful, intimate conversations with mothers from all walks of life. Mother is a Question is a portal into the kaleidoscopically different and yet universal experiences of what it means to mother.
No...2024-08-0229 min
Embodied Justice with Dr. Judy LubinEarth, Healing, and Black Feminism with Alexis Pauline GumbsIn this enlightening episode of “Embodied Justice”, Dr. Judy Lubin sits down with the distinguished poet, scholar, and black feminist, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together, they delve into the teachings and life of Audre Lorde and explore how her profound insights into survival and resilience can guide today’s black change makers. This conversation highlights the importance of rest, community, and deep connection with the Earth in advancing racial equity and justice. Alexis shares her wisdom on balancing personal well-being with the critical work of social change, making this episode a must-listen for anyone interested in the intersections of black femini...2024-07-3152 min
A Field Guide to Gay AnimalsEp. 3: GAY DEPTHSSynopsis: Owen and Laine take a refreshing dip with Dr. Janet Mann, a dolphin researcher whose research chronicled the 30-year relationship of Cookie and Smokey, two gay dolphins in Australia. Next, they speak with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals about the liberatory lessons we can learn from our Queer undersea kin.Guests: Cory Diane - Composer ; Dr Janet Mann Professor of Biology and Psychology at Georgetown University ; Dr Alexis Pauline Gumbs author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine MammalsCory Diane - Instagram: https...2024-06-2744 min
Black Earth PodcastSeason 3: Uncolonising nature with Alexis Pauline Gumbs‘How do we practice this revolution in a way that embodies the best of what we have as humans and the best of what we can observe in other species?’ - MarionIn Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. Today we meet Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs from North Carolina, United States. Alexis is a queer black feminist, love evangelist and an aspirational favourite cousin to all living beings. They are also the author...2024-06-261h 20
Mother is a QuestionA Motherful World (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)What if humans could evolve into our most nurturing and creative selves? What if society were organized around care instead of extraction and destruction? What if we followed the leadership of those who mother? Well, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, self-proclaimed Black Feminist Love Evangelist, thinks we have to. It's urgent. And she calls this possibility Motherful. This episode, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a poet and one of Julia's philosopher heroes, will be our guide to A Motherful World. She is a big inspiration for Julia. Check out Alexis' beautiful work here:Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Fron...2024-06-0527 min
How to Survive the End of the WorldWitch School Graduation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and SangodareIt's Witch School graduation day with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sangodare!
They discuss priestly practice, dropping down and back and into your center, movements of people around the world stepping up, conjuring love, the lineage of love, worshipping our partners, reading sacred texts, forgiveness your Lyft and/or Uber driver, amplifying the best of us, reclaiming love-craft and love as the essential nature of all that supports life.
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Ṣangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) is a sweet space for transformation. Ṣangodare comes from a thick legacy of Black Baptist pre...2024-05-0357 min
Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill[Revisit] Remembering with Alexis Pauline GumbsRevisit this episode with Alexis Pauline Gumbs which originally aired October 19th, 2020.___In this episode, Prentis meets with Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, and author of the upcoming book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Listen as Alexis moves us through time to relearn and remember the lessons of those who have brought us to now and the lineages from which we have come.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment...2024-04-2241 min
Poem-a-DayAlexis Pauline Gumbs: "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"Recorded by Alexis Pauline Gumbs for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 22, 2024. www.poets.org2024-02-2204 min
Queer Lit“Black Feminist Lessons” with Alexis Pauline GumbsThis episode takes us deep, deep into the queer ocean. Alexis Pauline Gumbs submerges us in Black feminist thought, takes us on a deep dive into queer creativity, and, most importantly, allows us to rethink our breathing through gills, lungs, mouths, and bills. Listen now to learn about how Audre Lorde, June Jordan and M. Jacqui Alexander have influenced Alexis Pauline’s work and why marine mammals play such a central part in her writing.Follow @alexispauline and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and a mystical manatee will visit you in a dream. References to Al...2023-09-1950 min
Tor Presents: Voyage Into GenreS.L. Coney / Ruthanna Emrys / Alexis Pauline GumbsThis week, we're getting our hands dirty -- it's a nature ep! Sort of! Featuring eldritch coming-of-age stories, first contact tales, and how we might re-envision ourselves as a part of this planet's ecosystem instead of somehow outside of it.ITINERARY:
S.L. Coney (Wild Spaces) talks about the present-tense of their novella, the power of writing about nature and a good good dog, and what we learn as we grow up.
Ruthanna Emrys (A Half-Built Garden) explains what she means by 'diaperpunk,' how she created her alien species, why it is important to add...2023-09-0659 min
Making ContactRevolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice (Encore)In the mid 1990s, the Reproductive Justice movement was formed by Black and indigenous women as a response to the limitations of the "reproductive rights" movement. Movement leaders argue, "rarely do we find ourselves fighting for just one aspect of reproductive justice such as abortion rights" - SisterSong.
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, scholar and writer, joined us to talk about her book Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines, her experience being a teenager during the formation of the Reproductive Justice Movement and what she's reading now to inform this moment.
Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here...2023-06-2829 min
Making ContactRevolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice (Encore)In the mid 1990s, the Reproductive Justice movement was formed by Black and indigenous women as a response to the limitations of the "reproductive rights" movement. Movement leaders argue, "rarely do we find ourselves fighting for just one aspect of reproductive justice such as abortion rights" - SisterSong. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, scholar and writer, joined us to talk about her book Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines, her experience being a teenager during the formation of the Reproductive Justice Movement and what she's reading now to inform this moment. Like this program? Please show u...2023-06-2829 min
The Windham-Campbell Prizes PodcastAlexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde's The Black UnicornAlexis Pauline Gumbs joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher to talk about the beauty of Audre Lorde's poetry and why more people should know her as a poet as well as an essayist.READING LIST:
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Broadside Press
"A Supermarket in California!" by Allen Ginsberg
For a full episode transcript, click here.Born in Summit, New Jersey in 1982, Alexis Pauline Gumbs is an activist, critic, poet, scholar, and educator. A...2023-05-1635 min
VSAlexis Pauline Gumbs vs. Chasing AweOn this week’s episode, Brittany and Ajanae sit down with Alexis Pauline Gumbs; during this interview, they discuss the gift of literary inheritance, unlearning the colonial lens, and allowing curiosity and awe to guide one’s research practice. Alexis also discusses the process of writing a biography on Audre Lorde, a longtime teacher and guide.
Until Next Time:
Here are some pieces of media to accompany your experience of the episode, and a writing prompt to tide you over until we meet again!
Fannie Lou Hamer- Songs My Mother Taught Me
Fred Hampton-Fred Hamp...2023-04-2550 min
The Saltwater Songlines PodcastBody-Land, Space and MudWelcome to my second conversation with Melbourne based Wholistic Osteopath and Doula, Emily Morter. We spoke together about the body as Country (meaning ‘sentient landscape’), and how it is to experience oneself, to be listened to, heard and met from the place of Body as part of the Land. To move and work from a place of listening to the spaces within the body, rather than the fluids of the body; those spaces as both connector, and as a container of consciousness. We spoke about dorsal Practices, inspired by the work of Alexis Pauline Gumbs in her most recent book...2023-04-1358 min
You’re Going to Die: The PodcastA Train Going By w/Alexis Pauline GumbsJoin host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, cherished oracle & community accountable Black feminist author & scholar, talking about the life, love, & death of her father, how she stays in relationship with him “by every means” possible, & how important it is to give one another permission to be in conversation with our ancestors.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’
website: https://www.alexispauline.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/alexispauline/
UNDROWNED, DUB, & all her books: https://www.alexispauline.com/books
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
So...2023-03-0958 min
Laura Flanders and Friends: Democracy, Labor, Economy, Culture, Investigative JournalismFull Uncut Conversation- Survival Guide for Humans Learned from Marine Mammals with Alexis Pauline GumbsEnjoy the full uncut conversation from our episode "Survival Guide for Humans Learned from Marine Mammals" featuring Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Poet, Independent Scholar & Activist and author of “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals” published by AK Press as part of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy Series.Episode Description: Are you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this summer hasn’t been smooth sailing for many of us either — with extreme temperatures, a global pandemic and other crises. How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDR...2023-01-0136 min
International Black Summit Interview SeriesInternational Black Summit Interview Podcast: Alexis Pauline GumbsNovember 6, 2022Black Summit InterviewsSeason 1, Episode #8 - Alexis Pauline GumbsIn this podcast episode, Glenn Greenidge and Grace Lawrence interview ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS about how she effectively uses the Summit Tools and Distinctions in her career, in her life, and in the Summit. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is cherished by a wide range of communities as an oracle and a vessel of love. Drawing over 25 years of experience as a writer and facilitator, her inclusive practice finds us and brings us into the ceremonies we have always needed. Alexis was blessed t...2022-11-131h 38
The SubverseHow to Breathe, and Other Survival Lessons From Marine MammalsIn this episode, Susan speaks to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a writer, independent scholar, poet, activist, and educator based in Durham, North Carolina, United States of America. Her most recent book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, 2020, part of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy Series at AK Press, flows from her previous works in a poetic continuum, with water playing a central role. In Undrowned, Alexis takes us through 19 thematic movements, lessons from marine mammals, and kindred beyond taxonomy. From echolocation to the evolution of dorsal fins, each movement takes us deeper into listening, breathing, practicing, sur...2022-11-0241 min
Possibilities PodcastS3 E3: Possibilities of Divine Love w/ Alexis Pauline Gumbs & Sangodare AkinwaleIn this episode we talk with Alexis and Sangodare as they celebrate 14 years of their loveship! This sweet episode is a special one because both Alexis and Sangodare have been big love teachers for Umang! We talk about the infinite ways in which Sangodare and Alexis lean into loving trust, curiosity, playfulness, and miracle with each other, and how that fuels the magic they offer out into the world.
Link to transcript: possibilitiespodcast.carrd.co
Creative Lead/Host: Umang Antariksh Sagar, Season Producer: kumari giles, Editing and Audio Production: Katie at Vocal Fry Studios, Visual...2022-10-251h 15
Laura Flanders and Friends: Democracy, Labor, Economy, Culture, Investigative JournalismSurvival Guide for Humans Learned from Marine Mammals with Alexis Pauline GumbsAre you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this summer hasn’t been smooth sailing for many of us either — with extreme temperatures, a global pandemic and other crises. How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDROWNED: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, draws on the practices of marine mammals — they are the experts, after all, in not drowning. (The harbor seal can slow its breath to about four beats per minute!) The book landed her the prestigious 2022 Whiting Prize for nonfiction, and now she is working on a bio...2022-09-0529 min
The Deep End Friends PodcastSeason 4 Episode 2: Dr. Alexis Pauline GumbsShake a tambourine for Black Feminism! Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. She leads retreats and has published several books. Find out more here: https://www.alexispauline.com/about2022-08-2159 min
Time Talks: History, Politics, Music, and ArtAlexis Pauline Gumbs on Undoing Domination, Surrendering, Listening, and Audre LordeAlexis Pauline Gumbs on Undoing Domination, Surrendering, Listening, and Audre Lorde https://www.alexispauline.com/ Books: https://www.alexispauline.com/books Social Media: https://twitter.com/alexispauline https://www.instagram.com/alexispauline/ Music by AwareNess: https://awareness0.bandcamp.com/ Please support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timetalks Channel Zero Network: https://channelzeronetwork.com/2022-05-1947 min
As She RisesThe FarmlandAs climate change progresses, more people will be forced from their homes and into exploitative environments. In the United States, this is particularly true of farmworkers.The climate crisis is, undeniably, a labor issue too.“like you i woke up in the dark. but i was reaching for animals, trying to beat the heat. like you sunrise usually found me in the middle of doing something. i didn’t call it prayer, but i did believe that if i did it every day we would exist.”In today’s episode, we hear the poet Ale...2022-04-2934 min
ZEITGEIST19 Curated PodcastAlexis Pauline Gumbs. The Creative Power of Difference Episode Summary:’Freedom is not a secret. It’s practice’, says our next guest speaker Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist… whose work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice.” In this intimate and candid conversation we dive into the poetical worlds of philosophy, Black feminism, and the concepts of mothering and daughtering with an invisible labor based behind the two. Today we ask Alexis her thoughts about the current state of ‘Apocalypse’, a never ending Healing, the legacy of one of the most powerful individuals of modernity Audre Lorde and...2022-04-1300 min
The Fire These Times99/ Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies w/ Marie Berry and Milli LakeThis is a conversation with Marie E. Berry and Milli Lake, co-founders and principal investigators of the Women’s Rights After War Project. We primarily spoke about their article "on inconvenient findings" and their paper for Annual Reviews "women's rights after war: on gender interventions and enduring hierarchies"
Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes
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Topics Discussed:
The limitations of many 'women's empowerment' programs
What happens when research findings challenge the work that policy makers are invested in promoting? Example of deg...2022-02-181h 28
Intertexte#7 - Émilie NotérisAvec Émilie Notéris on parle de constellations, de clitoris et d'afrofuturisme.
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Les choix d'Émilie Notéris :
• Le dernier texte que vous avez trouvé vraiment beau : Memorial Drive de Natasha Trethewey / Autobiographie de ma mère de Jamaica Kincaid
• Le texte qui parle le mieux d’amour : La Volonté de changer. Les hommes, la masculinité et l'amour de bell hooks
• Un texte qui provoque la réflexion : Les Abysses de Rivers Solomon (également choisi par Anouk dans l'épisode #10) / Un...2022-01-221h 11
The Institute of Black Imagination.E34. The Process of Un-Drowning with Poet and Scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Part Two).In today’s episode Dario sits with poet, independent scholar, and self-ascribed cousin to all sentient beings, Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs. As described by writer, Sharon Bridgforth, “Alexis serves as guide and translator of vibrational realities of dreaming into how to survive, thrive and shape-shift this world.” Dario and Alexis discuss creating our own paths outside of established institutions, particularly, academia and the church. Alexis shares thoughts on collaborating with Spirit and a love offering to anyone who has experienced spiritual violence. Today’s conversation is part 2 of our conversation with Alexis. During these conversations, we invite you t...2021-12-191h 01
Finding RefugeRemember to RememberAlexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis’s co-edited volume Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016) has shifted the conversation on mothering, parenting and queer transformation. Alexis has transformed the scope of intellectual, creative and oracular writing with her triptych of experimental works published by Duke Un...2021-12-1547 min
The Institute of Black Imagination.E34. The Process of Un-Drowning with Poet and Scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Part One).In today’s episode Dario sits with poet, independent scholar, and self-ascribed cousin to all sentient beings, Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs. As described by writer, Sharon Bridgforth, “Alexis serves as guide and translator of vibrational realities of dreaming into how to survive, thrive and shape-shift this world.” Dario and Alexis discuss how creatives can use their own archives to find their voice and the many lessons of love that come from grief. Today’s conversation is the first of two with Alexis. During these conversations, we invite you to slow down and simply listen.To listen in between t...2021-12-1247 min
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre PodcastIn conversation with Alexis Pauline GumbsAlexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar and poet, joins us to reflect on engaging with the works of Black feminist scholars, ancestral listening and her connectedness to seals. Author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis discusses how colonialism, enslavement and the plantation economy resulted in the extinction of the Caribbean monk seal. Alexis also talks about her forthcoming biography of Audre Lorde and deep diving into Lorde’s life and love of geology. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-alexis-pauline-gumbs This conversation was recorded on 29th July 20212021-10-2039 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesSPRC In conversation with Alexis Pauline GumbsAlexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar and poet, joins us to reflect on engaging with the works of Black feminist scholars, ancestral listening and her connectedness to seals. Author of 'Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals', Alexis discusses how colonialism, enslavement and the plantation economy resulted in the extinction of the Caribbean monk seal. Alexis also talks about her forthcoming biography of Audre Lorde and deep diving into Lorde’s life and love of geology.
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-alexis-pauline-gumbs
This conversation was recorded on 29th July 2021
Speakers: Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Alexis Pa...2021-10-2039 min
The Cosmic We with Barbara Holmes and Donny BryantYou Are Loved with Dr. Alexis Pauline GumbsOn this episode, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs joins Dr. Barbara Holmes and Dr. Donny Bryant in conversation for this episode of The Cosmic We. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. She is the author of several works, including her most recent book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals; series of meditations based on the increasingly relevant lessons of marine mammals in a world with a rising ocean levels and...2021-09-1052 min
Listen and Let Your Mind Roam Free With Full AudiobookM Archive: After the End of the World Audiobook by Alexis Pauline GumbsListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 526854
Title: M Archive: After the End of the World
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrator: Angel Pean
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:09:34
Language: English
Release date: 07-27-21
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Social Science
Summary:
Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive-the second book in a planned experimental triptych-is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of...2021-07-274h 09
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceM Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline GumbsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: M Archive: After the End of the World Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Narrator: Angel Pean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of G...2021-07-2730 min
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, PoetryM Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline GumbsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526854to listen full audiobooks.
Title: M Archive: After the End of the World
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrator: Angel Pean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Release date: July 27, 2021
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Genres: Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's accl...2021-07-274h 09
The Emergent Strategy PodcastSpiritual Hygiene and Saying Yes with Alexis Pauline GumbsAlexis Pauline Gumbs, Black queer troublemaker, love evangelist and cousin to all life joins ESII podcast host Mia Herndon to talk about Emergent Strategy immersions, the role of spirit and saying yes. Listen to this episode with a companion - actually, go back and listen to all of these episodes with a beloved or beloveds. With love. 2021-04-0155 min
Radio Aluna Theatre47 (English): Merendiando with Possibilities Podcast“The majority of the world is not aligned towards us. And yet we’re creating a world that we thrive in.” - Umang Antariksh Sagar
This week we’re interviewing Umang Antariksh Sagar and Kumari Giles, host/creator and producer host of Possibilities Podcast!
Possibilities Podcast engages in deep dive conversations with queer and trans, Black, Indigenous, people of colour artists and possibility makers. They seek to be a portal for inspiration and insight, and invite listeners to generate their own infinite possibilities.
Umang Antariksh Sagar, the creator and host, and...2021-03-0951 min
Haymarket Books LiveBlack Mothering as Poetic Archive (1-12-21)Join Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and Alexis Pauline Gumbs as they discuss mothering, parenting, loss, and Cheryl's new book Mama Phife Represents.
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Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and teaching artist. She earned an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine and an MSW from Fordham University. Her collections of poetry include Raw Air (2000), Night When Moon Follows (2000), Convincing the Body (2005), and Arrival (2017), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
The founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series, Boyce-Taylor is also a poetry judge for the New York Foundation for the Arts...2021-03-051h 27
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceRevolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Mai'a Williams, China Martens, Alexis Pauline GumbsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Author: Mai'a Williams, China Martens, Alexis Pauline Gumbs Narrator: Diana Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: An anthology that gives access to the voices of mothers of color and marginalized mothers. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines is an anthology that centers mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices—women who are in a world of necessary transformation. The challenges faced by movements working for antiviolence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation, as well as...2021-02-0230 min
Full Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Parenting TipsRevolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Mai'a Williams, China Martens, Alexis Pauline GumbsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Author: Mai'a Williams, China Martens, Alexis Pauline Gumbs Narrator: Diana Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Genres: Parenting Tips Publisher's Summary: An anthology that gives access to the voices of mothers of color and marginalized mothers. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines is an anthology that centers mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices—women who are in a world of necessary transformation. The challenges faced by movements working for antiviolence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation, as well as...2021-02-0230 min
The Black Girl Mystic22. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Black Feminism as a Liberatory Spiritual PracticeAlexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice.
Alexis’s prolific work inspires artists across form to create dance works, installation work, paintings, processionals, divination practices, operas, quilts and more.
Find Alexis online:
Alexis Pauline [Website]
@alexispauline [Instagram]
@alexispauline [Twitter]
Resources mentioned in this gathering:
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
M Archi...2021-01-191h 15
Black Girl Mystic22. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Black Feminism as a Liberatory Spiritual Practice Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Alexis’s prolific work inspires artists across form to create dance works, installation work, paintings, processionals, divination practices, operas, quilts and more. In this gathering, Alexis shares her wisdom about: How she discovered writing as her life's sacred work. Why Black feminism is a liberatory spiritual practice. The roles of faith, hon...2021-01-191h 15
Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis HemphillEp 7: Remembering with Alexis Pauline GumbsIn this episode, Prentis meets with Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, and author of the upcoming book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Listen as Alexis moves us through time to relearn and remember the lessons of those who have brought us to now and the lineages from which we have come.Find the show notes + transcript on our website: www.findingourwaypodcast.comCome practice with us at The Embodiment Institute: www.theembodimentinstitute.orgFollow us on Instagram ...2020-10-1941 min
Possibilities PodcastPossibilities of Listening w/ Alexis Pauline GumbsThe first episode of our new season dives into the power of listening, honing interconnectedness, honouring elders, and cultivating ceremony and practices of freedom with the brilliant expansive genius Alexis Pauline Gumbs (@alexispauline). This interview transcends time, as Alexis shares the necessity of knowing and transforming harmful institutions and systems in our lifetimes. This episode is also right on time, as today (June 11) is Alexis’s father’s birthday and tomorrow is Alexis’s birthday. Happy birthday to Clyde Gumbs and happy birthday in advance to Alexis! We are all blessed by the gifts of your being and your listen...2020-06-111h 37
WRITING HOMEs1, e2 ceremony | Alexis Gumbs“The ceremony can be found for it.” – Alexis Gumbs
Alexis educates Tami and Kaiama on the difference between a trilogy and a triptych, explains how daily practice really can make perfect (or close to it), and answers the burning question: is she a black feminist? Spoiler alert: YES.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony. She is also the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. The Anguilla Literary Festival called Alexis “The Pride of Anguilla.” Alexis...2020-05-1547 min
Just Sex: Mapping Your Desire“Anything that has saved our life can be shared" with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and SangodareAlexis Pauline Gumbs and Sangodare share radical tools and new forms toward a sexier, more generous & just world.Learn about Mobile Homecoming, Black feminist film school and Loveships.What breaks isolation? What would I do if I weren’t afraid of being rejected? Alexis and Sangodare remind us that we are all in this together.Listen and rate the show on Apple podcasts or Stitcher or Google Play or Spotify.Thank you to the Freeman Foundation, Elizabeth Scott, the Wild Geese Foundation and Grindr for Equality for their sponsorship!2020-04-2356 min
Who Yo People IsEpisode 30 - Alexis Pauline GumbsAn academic guided by intellectual practices inspired by Black liberation and Love, Alexis is a 2020-21 National Humanities Center Fellow. She says she is a Marine Mammal Apprentice...one who is carrying on blood line traditions of listening to whales. Alexis says, "one foot in the water one foot in the sand is where I hear the best." Alexis speaks of coming from mental health and spiritual workers...shoreline people, oyster workers, church founders, freedom practicing people/and a grandmother who designed the revolutionary flag for Anguilla, and is founder of the Caribbean Mental Health Association. Always...2020-04-061h 24
Who Yo People IsEpisode 29 - SangodareSangodare speaks of learning how to sermonize, study, have critical analysis, deep thinking about sacred texts/and how to have integrity as a spiritual leader - from her preacher father, and other preachers in her family. Creating energy and vibrational fields to open space for people to be more of who they are, Sangodare makes connections between the vocality of Black preaching styles, and Ifa oriki traditions and tonalities. Sangodare and her partner, Alexis Pauline Gumbs are actively visioning building an intergenerational assisted living, residential space. In addition to investigating sustainable models for collective economic practices and re-imagining collective...2020-03-301h 07
In the TellingEpisode 4: Speaking Through EdithThis weeks episode features Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a community-cherished writer, a queer Black feminist scholar and an aspirational cousin to you and everyone you know. Alexis is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke Press, 2016), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke Press 2018) and Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke Press, 2020). She is also the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016). The Anguilla Literary Festival called Alexis "The Pride of Anguilla." A Publisher's Weekly starred review of her most recent book called her work "groundbreaking." Bitch Magazine calls Alexis "a literary treasure." No...2020-03-1231 min
Chicana MotherworkSeason 1 Episode 4: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mai'a Williams, China Martens of Revolutionary MotheringCecilia and Christine interview the editors of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (2016), Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams. They discuss topics central to the creation of the book, such as expanding the category of "mother" beyond an essential biological construct to better reflect the active labor of the "mother" and mothering for social justice.2019-08-311h 08
QueerWOCEp 55: Black Feminist Miracle [w/ Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs]**Long episode with minor audio distortions during the topic segment**
Nikeeta and Money fangirl out as they interview the High Priestess of QueerWOC, Alexis Pauline Gumbs! She joins us for our topic segment to talk archival research, love, and Black feminist miracles. Nikeeta gives us Black lesbian filmmaker history. Money wants us to channel Audre Lorde in order to heal. Community Contributors is poppin again!! Thanks yall! Finally, Money gets some numbers!!!
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Collections by Michelle BrownCollections by Michelle Brown WSG Poet & Scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs PhDPoet, and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs Ph.D. is a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, and a prayer poet priestess. She has a Ph.D. in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. She is a widely published public intellectual and essayist whose work has appeared in publications like Make/Shift, Left Turn, The Crisis, Ms. Magazine, The Feminist Wire, and Obsidian. We'll be celebrating poetry and talking about her books "Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity" and "M Archive After the End of the World."
She was the first scholar...2018-04-271h 21
Weapon of Choice PodcastAlexis Pauline Gumbs - Never SilencedAlexis Pauline Gumbs graces Weapon of Choice to tell us about her work, creative journey, challenging us to deeper reflections on darkness and light and everything in between, heritage and humanity, as well as her new book, M Archive, which can be found here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/m-archive
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Past ForwardAlexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a WilliamsToday our podcast connects with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams, editors of the anthology Revolutionary Mothering. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is also the author of the dissertation We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism and was named one of UTNE Reader’s 50 Visionaries Transforming the World. China Martens is the author of The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others (Atomic Book Company) and coeditor of Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (PM Press), and is a cofo...2018-03-0534 min
Lez Talk Books RadioLez Talk Books Radio Presents: Alexis Pauline Gumbs[Poetry, Feminist Studies]
In January 2018, Sinister Wisdom released “Black Lesbians—We Are the Revolution” (Issue 107) to lift up the voices of African-American lesbians for all to hear, see, and know. This episode is the first in a series of conversations with the contributors.
Alexis a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the forthcoming book, M Archive: After the End of the World; co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines; and the founder and director of Eternal...2018-02-2300 min
Episodes – Always Already PodcastEp. 54 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M ArchiveIn this episode, James is joined by AAP Fanon correspondent M. Shadee Malaklou as they welcome a new guest, Derrais Carter, assistant professor of Black Studies at Portland State University. The trio discuss Alexis Pauline Gumbs‘ forthcoming M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke UP, March 2018), the second book of her “planned experimental triptych.” M Archive is a speculative documentary project that chronicles the end of the world from an unspecified position of futurity. We sit with the ways Black poetics enact forms of knowledge that resist grammar and structure, and how Gumbs’ work exceeds genres and disciplinary...2018-02-0600 minAlways Already Podcast, a critical theory podcastEp. 54 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M ArchiveIn this episode, James is joined by AAP Fanon correspondent M. Shadee Malaklou as they welcome a new guest, Derrais Carter, assistant professor of Black Studies at Portland State University. The trio discuss Alexis Pauline Gumbs‘ forthcoming M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke UP, March 2018), the second book of her “planned experimental triptych.” M Archive is a speculative documentary project that chronicles the end of the world from an unspecified position of futurity. We sit with the ways Black poetics enact forms of knowledge that resist grammar and structure, and how Gumbs’ work exceeds genres and disciplinary...2018-02-0600 minAlways Already PodcastEp. 54 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M ArchiveIn this episode, James is joined by AAP Fanon correspondent M. Shadee Malaklou as they welcome a new guest, Derrais Carter, assistant professor of Black Studies at Portland State University. The trio discuss Alexis Pauline Gumbs‘ forthcoming M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke UP, March 2018), the second book of her “planned experimental triptych.” M Archive is a speculative documentary project that chronicles the end of the world from an unspecified position of futurity. We sit with the ways Black poetics enact forms of knowledge that resist grammar and structure, and how Gumbs’ work exceeds genres and disciplinary...2018-02-0600 min
Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcastEp. 54 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M ArchiveIn this episode, James is joined by AAP Fanon correspondent M. Shadee Malaklou as they welcome a new guest, Derrais Carter, assistant professor of Black Studies at Portland State University. The trio discuss Alexis Pauline Gumbs‘ forthcoming M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke UP, March 2018), the second book of her “planned experimental triptych.” M […]2018-02-061h 24
Hopkins Press Podcasts1.21.2 Alexis Pauline Gumbs reads her poem "a puzzle not a closure" (Feminist Formations)Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.2018-01-1800 minHopkins Press Podcasts1.21.3 Alexis Pauline Gumbs reads her poem "African-American-Father-Gone" (Feminist Formations)Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.2018-01-1801 minHopkins Press Podcasts1.21.5 Alexis Pauline Gumbs reads her poem "instrumental" (Feminist Formations)Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.2018-01-1801 minHopkins Press Podcasts1.21.1 Alexis Pauline Gumbs reads her poem "concrete" (Feminist Formations)Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.2018-01-1700 minHopkins Press Podcasts1.21.4 Alexis Pauline Gumbs reads her poem "abscence" (Feminist Formations)Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.2018-01-1701 min
How to Survive the End of the WorldA Breathing Chorus with Alexis Pauline Gumbs"To get along with God, consider the consequences of your behavior." - Octavia Butler, Earthseed Verses
We are so excited to bring to you a conversation with our amazing comrade, our inspirational thought-leader, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Alexis is a prolific writer, collage artist, lover and one of the black feminist thinkers we look to most to guide our own thinking and processes. Her latest opus is M Archive: After the End of the World.
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Strange Horizons"BlueBellow" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, read by Alexis Pauline GumbsIn this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Alexis Pauline Gumbs's "BlueBellow." You can read the full text of the story here.
This is one of six stories we're presenting this week as part of our Resistance special issue. Keep checking back for the rest.2017-01-1634 min
Laura Flanders and Friends: Democracy, Labor, Economy, Culture, Investigative JournalismRevolutionary MotheringOn this special Mother’s day episode, guest host Alexis Pauline Gumbs explores revolutionary mothering with a panel of guests including China Martens, Mai’a Williams, Victoria Law, and Cynthia Dewi Oka. Self-described Queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Spill: Fugitive Scenes, coming later this year from Duke University press. China Martens is the author of, among many other works, The Future Generation: The Zine-book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others, and co-editor of Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Co...2016-05-0424 min