Spill: Black Feminist Fugitivity in Conversation and Performance

This event is taking place on the day of the General Strike and the day before the Women's March on Washington, we are inviting you to Spill in general. Interactive protest prompts will be available at the event.

Speakers:
Hortense Spillers, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Author, and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind

In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive practice of relating to the words of Black feminist thinkers.

Performer:
Ebony Noelle Golde, Ritual performance artist and cultural strategist, Spill-Director, SpiritHouse Member

East Duke Building
3:30 pm Conversation between Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, East Duke 209, Light Dinner will be provided

7:00 pm Performance of Spill by SpiritHouse, East Duke 209