This workshop is for self-identified community accountable scholars with an emphasis on intellectuals from traditionally under-represented communities.  We will listen, write, move and work together to remember and reclaim practices of sustainability for those impacted most from the intersecting violences that we meet (and which are often reproduced) in academic spaces.  Come with change in your heart and be ready to leave with sustenance for your own life-time of love motivated practice.  Space is limited so please REGISTER.

As an educator, Alexis Pauline Gumbs walks in the legacy of black lady school teachers in post-slavery communities who offered sacred educational space to the intergenerational newly free in exchange for the random necessities of life. She honors the lives and creative works of Black feminist geniuses as sacred texts for all people. She believes that in the time we live in access to the intersectional, holistic brilliance of the black feminist tradition is as crucial as learning how to read.  She brings that approach to her work as the provost of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, a transmedia- enabled community school (aka tiny black feminist university) and lending library based in Durham, North Carolina.

A queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and a prayer poet priestess, Alexis has a PhD in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University.  She was the first scholar to research the Audren Lord Papers at Spelman College, the June Jordan Papers at Harvard University, and the Lucille Clifton Papers at Emory University during her dissertation research.

For more information on Dr. Gumbs, go to:  http://alexispauline.com/