Meet Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Monday, June 28 2010
by Frank Stasio and Lindsay Thomas
Photo credit: Sed Miles
The words of black feminist writers touched Alexis Pauline Gumbs at an early age. She connected deeply with the theories of Audre Lorde, a Carribbean-American author and activist, and embodied Lorde’s revolutionary spirit in college and into graduate school at Duke University where she concentrated on English, Women’s Studies and African-American Studies. Gumbs now operates the School of Our Lorde, a series of educational sessions for the Durham community on politics, social change and feminist theory. Gumbs can also be heard as the host of a podcast and public access TV program called “Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind” and she is currently traveling the country in an R.V. that she calls her “revolutionary vehicle” collecting personal stories from black homosexual communities. Gumbs joins host Frank Stasio to talk about how black spirituality, sexuality, motherhood and sisterhood play a role in the survival of our society.
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