Oct 21

Book Talk: Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Presented by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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The Diana Center, Event Oval
  • Add to Calendar 2024-10-21 18:00:00 2024-10-21 20:00:00 Book Talk: Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Presented by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational favorite cousin to all life. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Alexis's books are portable textual ceremonies. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde revolutionizes the scale of life writing. Her award-winning meditation Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals offers the critical interspecies love song we need at this urgent stage of our collective evolution. Alexis is currently working on her next book in honor of June Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer, A Homemade Field of Love (forthcoming from Yale University Press).   All guests including BC/Columbia ID holders are required to register. Registration ends Wednesday, October 16th. Guests will not be allowed on campus if not registered. The Diana Center, Event Oval Barnard College barnard-admin@digitalpulp.com America/New_York public

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational favorite cousin to all life. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Alexis's books are portable textual ceremonies. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde revolutionizes the scale of life writing. Her award-winning meditation Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals offers the critical interspecies love song we need at this urgent stage of our collective evolution. Alexis is currently working on her next book in honor of June Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer, A Homemade Field of Love (forthcoming from Yale University Press).

 

All guests including BC/Columbia ID holders are required to register.
Registration ends Wednesday, October 16th.
Guests will not be allowed on campus if not registered.