Spilling Purpose: Gender Studies Beyond Institutional and Disciplinary Boundaries

Title: Spilling Purpose: Gender Studies Beyond Institutional and Disciplinary Boundaries
Speaker: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Lunch will be provided

Alexis Pauline Gumbs has created an intellectual, creative and community transforming life that transcends most known boundaries of academia, the arts and activism. During this session Dr. Gumbs will activate a purpose oracle. Bring your most honest questions about how to live your intellectual and activist purpose and be prepared for a creative conversation based on passages from her recent book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity.

Bio - Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer Black troublemaker and a Black feminist love evangelist based in Durham, North Carolina. She earned a PhD in English, African and African American Studies and Advanced Feminist Theory from Duke in 2010. She is now the provost of a tiny Black feminist University called The Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, the co-creator of the Mobile Homecoming experiential archive project and the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press, 2016) and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016)

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