... Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs will lead us through a series of prompts designed to allow us to reflect on our roles in the communities that make us possible. Alexis Pauline Gumbs âSista Doctaâ Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet and activist hailing from North Carolina. Informed by her book-length Home; About the conference. ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS Stardust and Salt: ... For 10 days you will wake up to Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs opening up your sky reading you a poem and offering you some nourishing reflections and questions from her unpublished series of "sky study" meditation poems. UPDATE: Cohort number one has completed the 21 day practice.Let's close out together. In celebration of the life-saving practice of story-sharing among oppressed communities and the book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the Third Eye Collective, and Somali Semantics will facilitate a space where we practice and remember how to honor the lives that made us possible, and our own possible lives. ... African and African American Studies and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. who dance through me. Fannie Lou Hamer nurtured Black dignity, divinity and community building in the face of an electoral system shaped by and obedient to white supremacy. i then further reflected on a recent self-reflection of the various relationships (whether platonic or intimate) i've held in my 30+ years on this earth. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines.Alexis was the first scholar to research in Audre Lordeâs papers at Spelman College and is the founder of the School of Our Lorde, the first community night school offering of a multiversity called Eternal Summer of the ⦠[â¦] Published May 28, 2020 (ONLINE) Module 3: Deeper Dive into Video Production for ⦠While her background is in black feminist theory, her work exists as proof that blackness and environmentalism are inextricably linked. The class will draw on Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbsâs chapter âNobody Mean More: Black Feminist Pedagogy and Solidari tyâ in the book The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (eds. Sista Docta Lex has created an online session specifically for visionary daughters based on Assataâs description of her daughterâs anger and the first interview with Assata Shakur after reuniting with ... by alexis pauline gumbs. To RSVP, complete the form at https://goo.gl/9YeFWY. Bring your friends! Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs will engage her beloved community by sharing and activating work inspired by visionary Black feminist artists ⦠â Alexis Pauline Gumbs in 2009 writing about June Jordan writing in 1984 about Phillis Wheatley writing in the 1770s in a place (her own dissertation) where Alexis Pauline Gumbs in ⦠It really should be the first line of my bio, my greatest achievement so far: Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs is available to Durhamâs Indigos. RSVP here: https://goo.gl/9YeFWY. Keynote-Speakers; Board. BASIQ 2021. Next. Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira.) Recently, I was blessed with the opportunity to share some of Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbsâs time for an email interview. The salt that loves me well, may I not waste it. My mom is a therapist and she was in graduate school when I was growing up, so I always remember feeling comfortable to share dreams that I remembered and that we might think about in terms of what it symbolized. Sponsored by Princeton BTGALA with support from the LGBT Center and the Women*s Center Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, ⦠The poet is known for weaving the past, present, and future togetherâfrom environmental issues to the transatlantic slave tradeâand offering up possibilities for caring for one another in the face of widespread harm. She uses space, sound, movement, and meditation(s) to create liberative learning spaces that inspire creativity and social change. 3 â 5 June 2021, The University of Foggia, Italy. Online. I wanted to catch up with her to talk about a project sheâs recently completed: The Black Feminist Breathing Chorus. The class will draw on Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbsâs chapter âNobody Mean More: Black Feminist Pedagogy and Solidarityâ in the book The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (eds. who sing as me. Conference Chairs Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Luciana Parisi, Nora Khan, Jacob Gaboury and Zach Blas will participate as speakers. See the details in our closing email (or here) and on the course page. 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. In this lecture, Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs will draw on her experiences of oral history collection in black LGBTQ communities, archival research on black feminist writers and theoretical/poetic oracle making to create an interactive experience for ⦠Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs. (granted we all have our character flaws - and i'm pretty sure - well i wasn't expecting anyone to show up and start going off - i hope no one would), but everyone saw what i did. For a few years now Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs has been considered a âqueer Black Feminist Expertâ but in her heart she identifies as an apprentice marine mammal: someone trying to learn how to breathe amidst rising oceans, transformed by the saltwater of her own tears, sweat, spit and blood. Join Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a workshop that will combine writing, meditation, movement and listening. Join Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs for an interactive space where we activate our memories, each other and Black feminist books as oracles towards the world we need right now. âThe difference between poetry and rhetoric is being readyâ¦â -Audre Lorde in âPowerâ Thursday August 4th 6pm-9pm EDT. As co-founder of Black Feminist Film School (founded along with Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs, APG) á¹¢angodare created Ritual Screening, a film viewing technology that is interactive and grounded in Black Feminist practice and our non-linear reality. This workshop will use poetry, listening and self-reflection to create a space of growth, transformation and trust. About â Alexis Pauline Gumbs Alexis Pauline Gumbs is an American writer, independent This workshop is based on Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbsâs ongoing marine mammal apprenticeship, a process of listening and learning that takes the consequences of colonialism and species level alienation, and the resulting reality of rising oceans as an opportunity to study the salt-water strategies of marine mammals including her relationship to her ancestors who ⦠M-Archive, the second book in the experimental triptych, tells a ⦠Every day is designed to help you practice ⦠who breathe with me. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. If you want to sign up for the JUNE cohort follow this link. So, of course, I turned to Indigo. Black Feminist Breathing Collage 11x17 â Alexis Pauline Gumbs. And I hate how we declaim it in our contemporary mouths. Her love for black people and her commitment to love-filled queer black feminist politics have inspired the ways I think about, and practice, liberation work. Join Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a workshop that will combine writing, meditation, movement and listening. ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS, PhD is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the forthcoming Dub: Finding Ceremony.She is also the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines.Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs is widely published and recognized for her research on women of the African diaspora ⦠Join Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs for an interactive space where we activate our memories, each other and Black feminist books as oracles towards the world we need right now. Menu. who laugh around me. Sponsored by Princeton BTGALA with support from the LGBT Center and the Women*s Center And bring your friends. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs The F-Word: Black Feminist Futures SATURDAY, MARCH 18 at 1 pm . âSista Doctaâ Alexis Pauline Gumbs is well-versed in the intersections of harm. Because if we listen, if we speak, ⦠Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira.) WELCOME to the Black Feminist Breathing Meditation Chorus.For 21 days in 2014 we chanted together all over the world. who kiss upon me. The birth doulaâs job is to a) be an advocate, support, and gift to a person giving birth, b) ensure that the birthing experience centers the vision and power of the person giving birth, and c) make a space for the relationship with the new baby. Collage by Alexis Pauline Gumbs for Toni Cade Bambara based on a photograph by Susan Ross. Black Feminist Breathing ChorusEvery day you will receive a meditation recording and ancestor collage. Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs june 27, 2020 1:00 - 2:30 (PSt) $25. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs teaches fromâand withâher heart. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.