Quirky black girls wake up ready to wear a tattered society new on our bodies, to hold fragments of art, culture and trend in our hands like weapons against conformity, to walk on. Alexis pauline gumbs and leah lakshmi piepzna samarasinha. Two new volumes from triangle poets alexis pauline gumbs and. After the end of the world duke university press is the second book in durhambased poet, activist, and queer black troublemaker alexis pauline gumbss groundbreaking poetic trilogy. Alexis pauline gumbs is a member of the tfw editorial collective. Alexis pauline gumbs is an acclaimed poet and a passionate community cherished scholar of black feminisms, mothering, daughtering and afrocaribbean literature. Gumbs is a contributor to the new skinner house book, encounters. Alexis is also the provost of a small black feminist university called eternal summer of the black feminist mind. Jul 24, 2012 to send you off to sleep dreaming of the earth and liberation or welcome you awake, if you read this in the morning, im deeply glad to share poems from the incredible activist, organizer, poet, teacher, culturemaker, and community accountable scholar her own lovely phrase, dr. After the end of the world synthesizes black feminist theory as creative urgency. At the bottom of each page of the book is a footnote, but it isnt a conventional footnote, because you use alexanders writing more as a launching pad than a reference point.
Erica doyles proxy by alexis pauline gumbs on march 7, 20. Like others in the genre it features a lead boy character, kevin, along with a pair of trusty supporting friends one boy and one girl. Ebook the gilda stories, expanded anniversary edition, author. So begins alexis pauline gumbs short story evidence, which appears in the science fiction anthology octavias brood. Join us in the rare book room for a panel discussion celebrating the. In spill, selfdescribed queer black troublemaker and black feminist love evangelist alexis pauline gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. The forum includes historical and contemporary perspectivesand creative pieceson black womens susceptibility to statesanctioned violence. To see some of the results of the version of wishful thinking facilitated with the. She is an afrotrinidadian feminist theorist, she is a. Love on the frontlines is an anthology that centers mothers. I have been thinking a lot about lucille cliftons poem. Jacqui alexander, and following the trajectory of gumbss acclaimed. Alexis pauline gumbs lives in durham, north carolina where she is building a retreat center and intentional community one living and tiny house at a time with the mobile homecoming project.
This is wishful thinking and might only be appropriate in an american context. After the end of the world duke university press is the second book in durhambased poet, activist, and queer black troublemaker alexis. Previous post kendra decolo i cant stop thinking about the room. Jun 04, 2015 this book is a fairly standard, middle grade fantasy infused adventure tale. Poems about race, ethnicity and identity, edited paula colejones. As audre lorde says in her essay uses of the erotic. Love on the front lines edited by alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, and maia williams. Because macy gray pimped it and janelle monae was ready. By alexis pauline gumbs july 10, 2018 2 this post is part of our online forum in honor of sandra bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death.
Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Jun 11, 2012 alexis pauline gumbs is a member of the tfw editorial collective. Home about now books press projects events contact. Other images, other phrases, fill me with yearning for livable futures and presents. See all 9 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Alexis pauline gumbss groundbreaking poetic trilogy engaging. She is a leading voice on feminist and gender justice issues whose words have appeared in and on the new york times, the guardian, bbc news, the today show, cnn, the washington post, elle, teen vogue and more. Engaging with the work of the foundational black feminist theorist m. Because audre lorde looks different in every picture ever taken of her. This is for black women who made and broke narrative.
The story unfolds through a series of episodic documents that reveals the link between alexis world and the one of. The world in books gatheringbooks is a book depository affiliate gathering books is an amazon associate and earns from qualifying purchases on amazon linked from this site. You write in the opening pages of m archive that alexanders book is ancestrally cowritten. Instead, it is an intricately woven, polyvocal, ever. Months ago, i was sitting in a laotian restaurant talking about the possibility of black feminist calculus with the. Mar 22, 2018 at the bottom of each page of the book is a footnote, but it isnt a conventional footnote, because you use alexanders writing more as a launching pad than a reference point. In this poetic work inspired by hortense spillers, gumbs offers an alternative approach to black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the. The forum includes historical and contemporary perspectivesand creative pieceson black womens susceptibility to. Poetry friday alexis pauline gumbs and her ode to black. Love on the frontlines is an anthology that centers mothers of color and marginalized mothers voices. To send you off to sleep dreaming of the earth and liberation or welcome you awake, if you read this in the morning, im deeply glad to share poems from the incredible activist, organizer, poet, teacher, culturemaker, and community accountable scholar her own lovely phrase, dr. Love on the front lines alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, maia williams, loretta j ross on.
In this future, we see how black feminist thought provides humanitys best chance for survival. The social justice book club i participate in just finished revolutionary mothering. Jul 23, 2012 as audre lorde says in her essay uses of the erotic. Alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, and maia williams inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and 80s, this anthology centers around mothers of color and marginalized mothers voices. Two new volumes from triangle poets alexis pauline gumbs. Joy kmt interviews poet alexis pauline gumbs about her new book, spill. Alexis pauline gumbs on black women, black feminism, and the capacity to love. Alexis pauline gumbss groundbreaking poetic trilogy.
Below, one of the symposiums participants, alexis pauline gumbs, introduces an excerpt from her prose project m archive. Its just a regular trip for kevin, and he comes back with some lo. Scalawag eden sena kokui segbefia spill is not just a poetic collection where art meets criticism or where art is criticism. I think a historian would call what i am about to say presentist bias, and i. Utne visionary and black feminist alexis pauline gumbs uses poetry in realizing her wish to become a community supported doula. I found myself in turns awed and brokenhearted and humbled.
Love on the front lines, edited by alexis pauline gumbs, china martens and maia williams. Tara bynum is a writer, scholar, and teacher though not necessarily in that order and an assistant professor of english at towson university. I was floored by some of the values that have changed like voodoo woman abortions, controlling vd, etc. She enjoys writing poems and channeling dead and live black genius in durham, nc. An interactive weekend for families based on the childrens books and essays of.
Written by a variety of marginalized women, every essay had something to teach me. Fantastic life i am about radical love, actions speaking louder than words, and communication as a point of evolution. Thinking back to other readings on technologies, what technologies support the assumption that love is a technology. This class will reinvoke duboiss 1903 question how does it feel to be a problem. Alexis pauline gumbs is on the itinerant professor tip. Our black feminist breathing meditation chorus 21 days begins at the new moon. Months ago, i was sitting in a laotian restaurant talking about the possibility of black feminist calculus with the brilliant mathematician and carpenter maia boudreaux.
Jamia wilson is the executive director and publisher of the feminist press. After the end of the world advertisement illuminating poetry since 1959. Jewelle gomez and alexis pauline gumbs read the gilda stories expanded anniversary edition by jewelle gomez available from rakuten kobo. Project muse 90 poems i didnt write for you for jasmine. Jul 10, 2018 by alexis pauline gumbs july 10, 2018 2 this post is part of our online forum in honor of sandra bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death.
A list of all alexis morgans series in reading order. Alexis pauline gumbss description of their book m archive as a training for. Jan 28, 20 101 things that are not true about the most famous black women alive. Join glory edim creator, wellread black girl, alexis pauline gumbs. Alexis pauline gumbs is a queer black feminist poet, scholar, and troublemaker based in durham, north carolina. First 50 participants who complete the course get the breathing cards and access to the breathing cards app. When you sign up you get immediate access to the toni cade bambara mantra practice. Mobile homecoming is an intergenerational experiential archive project that. She is an afrotrinidadian feminist theorist, she is a force of nature.
In her note, alexis pauline gumbs writes, this space, which is a temporary space, which we must leave, for the sake of future travelers and our own necks, is a sacred dedicated space. Two recently published volumes by triangle writers alexis pauline gumbs and dasan ahanu attest to the power of poetry to chronicle the new resistance and build a. The gilda stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays themcommunally. Jan 24, 2019 fantastic life i am about radical love, actions speaking louder than words, and communication as a point of evolution. One of his greatest insights, however, was expressed not in a book but in a newspaper. Aug 18, 2016 the social justice book club i participate in just finished revolutionary mothering. Alexis pauline gumbs on black women, black feminism, and the capacity. Alexis pauline gumbs is the provost of a small and intergalactic ancestoraccredited university called eternal summer of the black feminist mind. She is the founder of the eternal summer of the black feminist mind intergalactic community school and the coinstigator of the mobile homecoming project, an experiential archive amplifying generations of queer black brilliance. The story unfolds through a series of episodic documents that reveals the link between alexis world and the one of alandrix, who lives five generations into the future.
These come to meet me when i think of fear, and change, and endings. Power of the erotic, we have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves not at all coincidentally when we are out of touch with that yes within ourselves we are also more easily manipulated, bamboozled and led astray by the external maybes of capitalism, especially within the academic marketplace. Joy kmt interviews poet alexis pauline gumbs about her new book. Jan 30, 2017 our final post in a series highlighting our pushcart nominees features joan swift. An anthology that gives access to the voices of mothers of color and marginalized mothers revolutionary mothering. My thoughts wishful thinking is a very different book than what i usually read but i actually liked it. The world in books gatheringbooks is a book depository affiliate gathering books is an amazon associate and earns from qualifying purchases on. Wishful thinking by ali sparkes goodreads share book. Dec 07, 2010 alexis pauline gumbs reads her poem, mixed use.
Women of color media collective is a netroots coalition of mediamakers interested in strengthening our communities through truthtelling, media justice and the creation of a network of women of color media makers. Alexis pauline gumbs penned these words of affirmation in april, 2007, but they are helping her achieve her dreams in the present. Following the innovative collection spill, alexis pauline gumbss m archivethe second book in a planned experimental triptychis a series of poetic artifacts. Aug 28, 2012 alexis pauline gumbs penned these words of affirmation in april, 2007, but they are helping her achieve her dreams in the present. Gumbs has committed to training as a doula in an effort to support mothers as they bring life to earth, and as part of her own healing journey. Wishful thinking is a modernday fairy tale in which one woman learns to overcome the challenges and appreciate the joys of living life in real time. Scenes of black feminist fugitivity by alexis pauline. Paulines was published in 1971 and was quite controversial at the time. Following the innovative collection spill, alexis pauline gumbss m archivethe second book in a planned experimental triptychis a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Revolutionary mothering is an anthology that centers the experiences of marginalized mothers of color in movements fighting for necessary change in our world. Strange horizons alexis pauline gumbs by strange horizons. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Alexis pauline gumbss spill is an offering for all seeking an unpredictable and experimental journey of black feminist artistic expression and selfdiscovery. Mar 18, 2017 two recently published volumes by triangle writers alexis pauline gumbs and dasan ahanu attest to the power of poetry to chronicle the new resistance and build a greater sense of community.