Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Courtney Desiree Morris
2025-04-06 21:00 - 22:00 UTC | Virtual Library
Rescheduled from Feb. 25, 2025

Author Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Courtney Desiree Morris discuss Gumbs’ most recent book, Survival Is a Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C6428280). Publisher's Weekly writes "This scintillating tour de force from poet Gumbs traces the life of feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934--1992) in a free-ranging style as distinctive as its subject." Online book sale provided by Sistah Scifi (https://sistahscifi.com/products/survival-is-a-promise-the-eternal-life-of-audre-lorde).

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search) is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She is/they are the author of several books, most recently Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and the award-winning Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. She is/they are the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance.

Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual and performance artist and associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her mediums include large-format portraiture and landscape photography, experimental video, performance art, and installation art. Thematically, her work is concerned with ancestral memory, African-based spiritual traditions, ecology, black place-making and the everyday ritual aesthetics of diasporic communities. She explores how we inhabit places and how places come to inhabit us. As a scholar, her work examines Black and Indigenous women’s social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean; authoritarianism and Latin American statecraft; race, energy and environmental politics in the African Diaspora; and Black feminist/queer aesthetics and visual culture. She is the author of To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua.

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs – Website (https://www.alexispauline.com/)

Courtney Desiree Morris – Website (https://www.courtneydesireemorris.com/newsletter)
