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Video Archive
The videos of the Activist Poetics symposium and performance night are now on Archive.org. We hope you find these an enriching continuation of our conversations! Please share widely.
https://archive.org/details/ActivistPoeticsPart1AlexisDavida
Image: Alexis Pauline Gumbs reading from her work M Archive: After the End of the World at the Seattle Public Library at the “Activist Poetics” performance event.
This was a great day. I am so glad it is preserved on video!
“Dig and be dug in return.” Langston Hughes is inviting you to celebrate the homie Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday by signing up for Dig: Womanist Archeologies! http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2016/12/29/dig-the-womanist-archeologies-intensive/
We are building a retreat center one living room and one tiny house at a time. Find out more about the next phase of the Mobile Homecoming and support here: http://www.mobilehomecoming.org/2016/11/21/living-room/
See you tomorrow at Queer Black Sunday School Choir Practice in Durham y’all!!! Details here: http://eepurl.com/b_9gMn
The Audre Lorde Fanclub Zine Issue 1 Promo Poster
the first issue will be out on december 1st!! please reblog, follow the zine’s blog (above) and spread the word about it. if you would like to join in/be one of the contributors please contact me @tropicalgrrrl. we’re also now on instagram at theaudrelordefanclub, it will soon have updates and such so you’re aware of what’s going on. thanks for supporting us!
“African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change (AALUSC) is a lesbian feminist organization with a long and complex organizational history dating back to the Gay Liberation Front. Known for half its history as Salsa Soul Sisters, the organization currently known as AALUSC was a splinter group of the Black Lesbian Caucus, which in turn was a splinter group of Gay Activists Alliance, which itself was a splinter group of Gay Liberation Front. Founded in 1974, Salsa Soul Sisters was, until 1990, a group for “Third World Gay Women,” primarily African American and Latina lesbians. It later evolved into a group for African American lesbians exclusively. Throughout its history, this organization has met in Greenwich Village, first, on 133 West 4th street and later in the Gay and Lesbian Community Service Center on 13th street. The pamphlet from this organization was included in Georgia Brooks’ personal papers. The contents of this pamphlet explain the mission statement of the organization and the time and location of the meetings. “ —Greenwich Village History
Last month in Detroit I had the honor and pleasure of co-facilitating a workshop with Sangodare (aka Julia Roxanne Wallace) and Alexis De Veaux called “Queer Blood Relations: The Thickness of Witness” at the historic Fire and Ink IV celebration. During the course of our workshop the 20 participants
*found the ways that we were related to each other in the room
*learned the song “Mojuba” in the context of Sangodare’s explication of a bapticostal, queer visionary, Yoruba Ifa-Orisha spiritual calling
*witnessed Alexis De Veaux’s family tree of literary precedents that made her book YABO possible
*engaged my black feminist breathing collages as examples of creating visual sacred space for our work in the context of our literary ancestors
*and created Mojuba prayers to honor the lineage of their own creativity as black queer literary geniuses which they are now using to create sacred space every time they write.
We closed the workshop with a ritual group poem based on the concept of YABO-the unbreakable thread, binding our intergenerational circle with intention laughter and affirmation. After you read a line that resonates with you, you can shout YABO! like we did to affirm the unbreakable thread and if you are anything like our interconnected group of queer black geniuses at the end you will laugh and rejoice.
The Unbreakable Thread (YABO)
spoken by the participants in the Queer Blood Relations Workshop at Fire and Ink 2015 in Detroit, MI
I bind myself to you with joy and revelation.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the truth of who we are: divine one.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the spirit and energy of freedom.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with purity and with wisdom.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the magic of wildness and the sweetness of nature.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the magic of who were, who we are and who we will be.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with electric positivity and reverence.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with spirit, energy, freedom and love.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the power of our history and the potential of our future. YABO!
I bind myself to you with the unbroken thread of love.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with patience and dance.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with healing and love as we build in afrofuturism.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with dignity and respect.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with fearlessness and confidence.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with determination and legacy.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the roots of all the hairs that we’ve ever had.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the miracle that is playfulness and laughter.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with unbound creativity.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with the hope for liberation.
YABO!
I bind myself to you with an erotic life and the joy that having an erotic life brings to us.
YABO!
It Did Not Start With Stonewall: Black Lesbian Elders Tell Their Herstories ( Video uploaded on Jan 12, 2007 )
“Our revolution didn’t start with Stonewall. African American lesbian elders tell the tales of gay New York life in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx before the world-altering Stonewall rebellion. In this clip they recall, raids and suffocating laws and racial discrimination faced within the gay community.” - On January 10, 2012 | ELIXHER
Sign up by July 6th: Maroon Studies Webinar Intensive #2: Necessary as Water
Maroon Studies Intensive #2: Necessary as Water: July 15-17, 2015 (12pm to 2pm Eastern)
This is a webinar intensive for thirsty visionaries who value transnational/intercommunal connections and a planetary scale of transformation. Transubstantiating the poetry of Audre Lorde, the theoretical work of Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Mohanty, Michelle Wright and Katherine McKittrick and the activist legacies of June Jordan and Lydia Gumbs, this webinar is especially necessary for thinkers connecting basic needs to brave visions.
8 spots are available. $175-225 sliding scale (payment plans available).
You can reserve your spot by offering a $50 non-refundable deposit here (please include the name of the webinar in the notes):
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Favorite Facilitator Moment Day #13: Regenerate
This image is from a moment at the Mobile Homecoming and Quirky Black Girls collaborative event “Regenerate” held during Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride several years ago. This day-long event that included dialogue, singing, delicious food an intergenerational dance party and more. One of my favorite moments was when Mary Hooks broke into song and everyone harmonized their way into the spirit. Another favorite moment was when Ifalade TaShia Asanti expressed being relieved that she could actually rest because the event had showed her that there was a generation ready to take on the transformative activist and artistic work that she had dedicated so many years to. Just this past week I heard Lee Henry Jordan echo that sentiment at the Where Have You Been All My Life event in Minneapolis.
I believe that there is a brilliance present when there are multiple generations in a room together that is priceless for our renewal and our revolution.
If you believe in the value of facilitating intergenerational spaces you should definitely come to the Juneteenth Freedom Academy for Facilitators: Durham, NC Nov 1-2, 2014!!!!
http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/juneteenth-freedom-academy-for-facilitators-durham-nc/
Hope to see you there!
Love, Lex
Inspired by Essex Hemphill’s question in his poem “For My Own Protection” : “are we capable of whatever whenever,” the #whateverwhenever oracle is Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind’s (blackfeministmind.wordpress.com) offering to the #blacklivesmatter ride to Ferguson/St. Louis Missouri. Go to http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/whateverwhenever-oracle-day-1-we-need-a-god-who-bleeds-now/ to see the oracle mini-poems. For more black feminist reflections on death and life see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/233179539/Ogbe-Oyeku-Black-Feminist-Book-of-the-Dead-and-Unborn
Check out Julia’s first director’s log video. And then donate!!!! http://www.gofundme.com/ba5bqg
When We Free casting was great this week! First rehearsal tomorrow night! Contribute to our online fundraiser so we can feed, house and pay our brilliant cast!!! http://www.gofundme.com/ba5bqg
It is Ida B. Wells Day!!!
Shield. For Ida B. Wells by Alexis P. Gumbs.
In honor of Ida B. Wells Day (July 16th), here is an encore presentation of a meditation comes from this warrior for the transformative light of truth. I see you bright thunder!
Listen to the meditation...
Hi Friends! On April 15, 2014, two College Park white male officers assaulted Mary Hooks. Mary Hooks is a mother, sister, friend, community organizer, and a lover of her people. She witnessed an aggressive and excessive police interaction between 4 officers with their guns drawn and 2 younger Bl…
From the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat
50 years ago Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker were making sure all eyes were on Mississippi. They were standing up in Mississippi churches that racists were threatening to firebomb talking about how the July 2nd signing of the Voting Rights...
Orbit. Collage for Melvin Dixon by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
Oh loved ones! My birthday was yesterday, but the gift of breathing don’t stop! This bonus meditation from the brilliant Melvin Dixon is designed to propel your ancestor-breathing into the future. So much love to you!
Listen to the meditation here: http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88658048985/oh-loved-ones-my-birthday-was-yesterday-but-the
These meditations are available for 3 days from the day they are posted. To find out how to get eternal access to the meditations you may have missed visit our about page: http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about
And if you want to pay it forward to get streaming access to the meditations you missed…consider donating to the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat Scholarship Fund so someone else can attend!
http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/cause-view/support-black-feminist-breathing/
If you want to breathe together in person there is still time to sign up for the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat:
http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/
