Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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Holding Hands with Your Heart: Loveships Playdate Can our love be louder than our fear? Inspired by our new podcast, September: A Podcast for Loveships. This is a playdate for Loveships, people in committed partnerships to support us as we hold each ...

Can our love be louder than our fear? Inspired by our new podcast, September: A Podcast for Loveships. This is a playdate for Loveships, people in committed partnerships to support us as we hold each other through uncertain times.

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assata rhymes with daughter — Alexis Pauline Gumbs my hand on your hand elbow in your elbow who is frame who is shape other hand softens in a tentative fist   elbow in your elbow i refuse to eat anything but macaroni and cheese bloom tin...

“May the the part of me that loves Assata be water. May it be every part of me, may it flush out the fear the state insists on and turn it into faith.”

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The God of Every Day: A Week of Practice "There are many names for god. The name I use is EVERY DAY." This course builds on Alexis Pauline Gumbs's work on daily practice with a series of poems, activities and meditations she created from h...

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Towards peace in your heart. In celebration of my first 900 (and 7) days of consecutive meditation I invite you to use the code EQUINOX for a discount on my daily practice space.

It’s official! You can now follow September: A Podcast for Loveships wherever you listen to podcasts! Have questions for me and @sangodarewallace about love and relationships? Your question could be featured on the first episode.

What is your burning question about love as a spiritual practice?

This Grief is a Tonic: Poetry Between Motherhood and Music | BCLF 2025 YouTube video by Brooklyn Caribbean Lit Fest

Laureate indeed.💜 So glad Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival recorded and shared this special moment. So grateful for you Cheryl Boyce Taylor and everything you bring to our communities!💜
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Every Breath: The Cosmic Purpose Intensive — Alexis Pauline Gumbs Peace by the participants in Every Breath: The Cosmic Purpose Intensive “To that piece of each of us that refuses to be silent.” -Audr...

Here is the group poem from our Cosmic Purpose Intensive. I reccomend reading it outloud!💜💜💜💜

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Thanks so much!!!🌺

In the face of urgency, uncertainty and siege it is likely, expected, and intended that we will spiral into cycles of fear and patterns of disassociation. But these are times that require us to be more present and grounded in our power than ever. See you Tuesday on IG @alexispauline

How can we be compassionate with ourselves and each other and still show up to meet the moment? Tuesday Sept 9th at noon eastern join me to ground in this moment and breathe into our power. See you soon on IG live @alexispauline

It was wonderful to contribute this week to this celebration of filmmaker @pratibha.bsky.social work at the ICA London.

A new book of essays by myself, Lola Olufemi, @alexispauline.bsky.social
& more is available; “a gift for any artist”researcher and activist

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Time is a lesbian. 🌺

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The face of a writer who just got a notification from @peoplemag.bsky.social that Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is a finalist for a ZORA (formerly known as the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award) in non-fiction alongside some amazing books including Salvage by DIONNE BRAND. 🤯

Thank you so much!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

Exciting! And in the place where she said it! I hope it will be recorded…my paperback launch is the same night! Audre in the air! 🎉

Audre Lorde was motivated by that same love and commitment when she kept relevant publications that the library she worked at wouldn’t stock hidden in her desk and gave them to the young people in her community. Audre Lorde loves you and I do too @bklynlibrary 💕

when they took the bold move of inviting all young people to have digital memberships so they could access life-saving books banned in their areas, their staff was living into poet-librarian Audre Lorde’s mandate that we must use the power we have when the fearful try to say we are powerless.

I’m so thrilled to announce that Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library Award in Non-fiction! And therefore I will be participating in the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Festival next month! Stay tuned for details NYC family.

Tonight. If you can’t make it, everyone who signs up gets the recording. 💜

The Hands that Hold the Bowl: June Jordan and Solidarity Against Famine Inspired by Mothers for a Ceasefire's call this week's reflective writing workshop will engage June Jordan's poem "Focus in Real Time" which centers around the image of 'a bowl of rice/ as food/as pol...

Write with us tomorrow. A benefit for The Sameer Project 💜

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Ep 7: Remembering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill · Episode

Oh yes, Rebecca❤️‍🔥 —such rich and vital dream-ways ! I can listen to this conversation on the stunning portal of Black feminism dreaming with @alexispauline.bsky.social over and over: open.spotify.com/episode/5Inx...

The poem: vimeo.com/426276718

Screen shot of the audiobook for “Survival is a Promise: The eternal life of Audre Lorde” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

I highly recommend this beautiful book (“Survival is a Promise: The eternal life of Audre Lorde by @alexispauline.bsky.social). It is beautifully written, a poetic prose, and so full of heart and wisdom and spirit. #booksky

“According to Audre Lorde, when she finally began to speak at five years old, she only spoke in poetry.”

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, @alexispauline.bsky.social, reads from her book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, at the New York Public Library in September 2024.

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She wanted to meet women. Instead, she cemented herself in D.C. history. Sheila Alexander-Reid founded D.C.’s Women in the Life, a publication focused on connecting Black lesbian women.

We love you Sheila!💜💜💜💜

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YouTube video by Recording Academy / GRAMMYs Silk Sonic Celebrate A “Clean Sweep” With Record Of The Year Win | GRAMMY Rewind

@workingfamilies.org celebrating a CLEAN SWEEP! Four for four!!! Gratitude for the strategy, brilliance and love that fuels this movement!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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So honored and in such great company!!!💜💜💜

QT Library The QT Library is a nonprofit queer and trans lending library opening to the public with a brick and mortar location in Boston, MA. The QT Library is designed to nurture the curiosity and magic of t...

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans YA: "I Wish You All the Best" by Mason Deaver (TOMORROW at 7 PM ET)
🐬 Queer Nonfiction: "Undrowned" by @alexispauline.bsky.social (7/15 at 7 PM ET)
🧑‍🍳 Sapphic Sci-Fi & Fantasy: "Interstellar Megachef" by @@lavanya.bsky.social‬ (7/23 at 7 PM ET)

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