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Alexis Gumbs

is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the Founder and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina.

Features

The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice

By Walidah Imarisha, Alexis Gumbs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, adrienne maree brown and Mia MingusApril 20, 2017
A conversation with the authors of Octavia's Brood.
Essays & Reviews

That Transformative Dark Thing

By Alexis GumbsMay 19, 2015
The practice of Black feminist breathing evokes a lineage of Black revolutionaries whose faith in freedom continues to inspire individual and communal modes of survival, love and transformation
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