Ancestor Audre: References for Rebirth (an Online Writing Workshop)

Alexis Pauline Gumbsis a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, a prayer poet priestess and has a PhD in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University.  Alexis 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.  She has also researched in the archival papers of Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, Fannie Lou Hamer and many more.Alexis is the author ofM Archive: After the End of the World (Duke Press, 2018),Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity(Duke University Press, 2016) and the co-editor ofRevolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines(PM Press, 2016) andhas also published widely on Caribbean Women’s Literature with a special interest in Dionne Brand. Her scholarly work is published inObsidian, Symbiosis, Macomere, The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Literature, SIGNS, Feminist Collections, The Black Imagination, Mothering and Hip Hop Culture, The Business of Black Powerand more.Alexis is the author of an acclaimed collection of poems101 Things That Are Not True About the Most Famous Black Women Aliveand poetic work published inKweli,Vinyl, Backbone, Everyday Genius, Turning Wheel, UNFold, Makeshiftand more.Alexis is the founder of Brilliance Remastered, a service to help visionary underrepresented graduate students stay connected to purpose, passion, and community, co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Project, a national experiential archive amplifying generations of Black LGBTQ Brilliance, and the community school Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

"and I am lustful now for my own name" - from "Outside" by Audre Lorde
On divine Black lesbian feminist warrior poet mother ancestor Audre Lorde's birthday we will be gathering for a reflective writing workshop based on Audre Lorde's book The Black Unicorn.   Audre Lorde says of this book that it is a conversation with "an Ancestor Audre" who taught her life-changing lessons rooted in her travel to and study of West Africa.  With this work Audre Lorde developed the ancient, Black, feminine, queer references she needed to root her own life practice. Displacing the European references of her education, the cultural nationalist limitations of her Black Arts publishing communities, and the so-called universality of white publishing norms, she found, pulled together, and created the mythologies that could nourish the work she was called to do. 
And you?
This online writing workshop is for those of us in the legacy of Audre Lorde who want space to catalog our own sacred references.  This is space to remember and call on the stories, symbols, figures and forms of knowing that can form the foundation of our own transformative work in this time.  
 
*Detail of a photo of Audre Lorde by Dagmar Shultz
 
There are no refunds.  If you sign up and are not able to attend, your registration fee will become a cherished donation for the ongoing work of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.

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