All posts by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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3 Lessons from Natasha Trethewey: (Lesson 2) Making the Archive You Need
(Read Lesson 1 here.) From the series intro: When I first met Natasha Trethewey she was a visiting fellow at Duke University’s Center for Documentary...
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Part 1: Natasha Trethewey, Time Travel, and Telekinesis
This is part one of a three-part series celebrating the crucial lessons of the poetic body of work of United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey....
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3 Lessons from U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (A 3 Part Series Coming Soon!)
Series Introduction: I am dancing and screaming with joy even more often than usual because Natasha Trethewey is our next US Poet Laureate! For those...
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To Be Brown
for (fellow Feminist Wire collaborator) Darnell Moore After Audre Lorde’s “Thaw” we season language into sweet potatoes deep heavy whole with so many rooted...
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Peta for Prez: A Black Feminist Socialist Presidential Candidate Speaks!
My dreams don’t usually take the form of the state. But in my dream state the Combahee River Collective statement would be the preamble to...
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A Holistic Anatomy of Yes?: A Review of Corset Magazines Orgasms Issue
I have strong views on sex. As a co-founder of the not safe for work tumblr Come Correct (bettacomecorrect.tumblr.com) I unapologetically let you know that...
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Black Feminism Be(yond): Abundance (Part 4 of Can Black Feminism Be Quantified)
(This is part four of a four part series. Read parts one, two and three.) Series Intro: “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless...
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We Be: Black Feminism and Embodiment (Part 3 of Can Black Feminism Be Quantified)
(This is the third installment of a four part series read part one and part two here.) Series Intro: “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth...
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Black Feminism: A Statistic? (Can Black Feminism Be (Quantified)? Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a four part series. Read part one here) Series Intro “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of...
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Can Black Feminism Be (Quantified)?: A State/ment (Part 1 of 4)
“Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of personal sacrifice, militancy and work by our mothers and sisters.” “We have found it difficult...
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Get There: Four Electric Ghosts
Get There: A Review Four Electric Ghosts: An Opera-Masquerade by Mendi and Keith Obadike Four Electric Ghosts, the newest Opera Masquerade from digital, performance and...
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LoveOverflow: A Red Reflection
“When you first realize your blood has come, smile; an honest smile, for you are about to have an intense union with your magic.” “from...
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Off-the-Hook Black Feminist Mentorship: An Anti-Capitalist Re-evaluation
A lot of times, June Jordan couldn’t pay her phone bill. I held the disconnection notices in my own hands, sitting hungry and enthralled in...
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The Straw: Activating Black Feminism in response to “Dead Men Walking”
Black feminism lives as an abundant and hopeful critique of our everyday circumstances. Black feminism lives as a perpetual readiness to engage and instigate transformation...
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“We Are More Loved Than We Know”: Masculinity, Feminism and the Love that Will Save Our Lives
June Jordan teaches that: “Love is lifeforce.” And the healing power of love has saved my life more than once. In the name of this...
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‘Keep Your Sorry’: On Slavery, Marriage and the Possibility of Love
Recently, the Iowa based organization, The Family Leader, apologized for a controversial reference to slavery in their “Marriage Vow,” a document that it created to...
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Still Colored: Education, Evolution and the NAACP
Principle inspired by Pandwe Gibson en cuba when asked about the challenge a godless country he said education is our religion home in the precinct...
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Rock Struck: Obama and the Hard Place of Paper
After noise and nonsense from the political right, the President of the United States, had to show his papers. The fact of a black man...