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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): Nikki Brown: Color (or what it feels like)
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Nikki Brown: Color (or what it feels like). When you set your chin. In the spoke of demand. Where the sun is extra. Into the part of the sermon. When no one can tell. Gives our hungry eyes. Here is a healing Mandala that Nikki made with the members of the Katrina Neighbors healing circle that she facilitated. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs). For you in my teeth. Because we have what ...
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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): Michelle Lanier: Ribald Farming
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Thursday, April 12, 2007. Michelle Lanier: Ribald Farming. Angels stain the air. When you reach for words. The soil you trace. And birds sound the calling. To water what knows. So i'll curl a streamer. I'll smooth a mound. I'll balance a birthing gourd. Meaning I will cultivate grace daily. Thank you Alexis. This is a priceless gift. It feeds me on this morning. It inspires me to be shown OUR light through poem and image. You make me more beautiful! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Because LOVE gets t...
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littleblackbook: August 2012
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You know who else is a black star? Monday, August 27, 2012. I Wanna Be Your Birth Doula! From Lex and her mom's new project: Dynamic Dou: A Mother/Daughter Doula Team. 54 everyone is waiting. To see what great thing. You'll do next." -from Wishful Thinking. By Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Http:/ alexispauline.chipin.com/rebirth-doula-dreams-coming-true. It is also a necessary act of revisiting my own birth that I see as a crucial part of my journey to become a mother someday soon! Each donor will receive an ori...
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littleblackbook: The Shape of My Impact: A Virtual Conversation on Survival and the Academic Industrial Complex
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You know who else is a black star? Tuesday, September 16, 2014. The Shape of My Impact: A Virtual Conversation on Survival and the Academic Industrial Complex. 8220;I love the word survival, it always sounds to me like a promise. It makes me wonder sometimes though, how do I define the shape of my impact upon this earth? 8221; –. Reflection cut from an early draft of “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred and Anger” by Audre Lorde (Audre Lorde Papers, Spelman College Archive). Shape of My Impact Conversation.
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littleblackbook: August 2011
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You know who else is a black star? Monday, August 29, 2011. Break free (everyday) Gratitude Poem #21. After Audre Lorde’s “Parting”. Chisel light into break room. Passed note to whole note break rest to trill. Too past to hold. Too old to break. Cooler under river stone. Trowel truth break ground refine less lime over more time. Ghost right host bit love tongue blood read break skin in. Thin wrap loose chase goosebump into break time. Mine coal ice cold chase fever break even. Sunday, August 28, 2011.
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littleblackbook: April 2012
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You know who else is a black star? Monday, April 30, 2012. Queer Black Facilitators of the Future: Press Release. Queer Black Facilitators of the Future. Mobile Homecoming Co-creators recognized in The Advocate. 8220;top 40 under 40”. March 30, 2012. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 919-827-2702. Durham, NC - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ph.D and Julia Wallace, M.Div. will be recognized in the May issue of the The Advocate. Alexis and Julia travel the country in a 1988 RV they call Sojourner, interviewing Black Lesbian el...
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littleblackbook: March 2013
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You know who else is a black star? Friday, March 08, 2013. We Are the Open We Need: The Need Ensemble Opens Up. The brilliant and brave Brilliance Remastered Need Ensemble. Has me wide open, reaching into my dreams and the dreams of my ancestors. Last night after working with Audre Lorde's Coal and my brother Seneca's teachings about the relationships between dreams, wisdom and nightmares we wrote this poem together. May you be as open to it as you need to be. We Are the Open We Need. Pain i can use, open.
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littleblackbook: June 2012
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You know who else is a black star? Wednesday, June 13, 2012. 3 Big Decades- 3 Tiny Books of Poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. I've decided to celebrate 30 years of being a teeny tiny poet by amplifying my poetic work in a big grown up way. You now (only until the end of June) have the opportunity to buy one, or two or three or several tiny origami folded poetry books by yours truly as part of my fundraiser to publish my chapbook Such Rainbows. Poetry for poetry's sake indeed! To Straight Hair Gone Forever.
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littleblackbook: December 2012
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You know who else is a black star? Friday, December 14, 2012. Long Distance Love for Indigo Journeys: Support 7th Graders in their Black Feminist Brilliance! Greetings loved ones,. The Indigo Afterschool Program. For brilliant black feminists in middle school (inspired by Ntozake Shanges Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo) here in Durham is evolving into the Indigo Journeys program, a curriculum of visionary black feminist fieldtrips and monument making! Behold the power and creativity of black girls! You ca...
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littleblackbook: February 2012
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You know who else is a black star? Sunday, February 19, 2012. Call for Contributions: Every Heart Beat a Podcast for Whitney Houston. This is how i know. That skin is thin and bright and precious. That song can be broke. Love slice the veins. That beauty is a call. And we are all responsible. Almost Bop for Whitney Houston. By Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Falling in love is so bittersweet. How do we feel about R. Kelly having space at the altar at her funeral? Written letters/poems and statements for Whitney.
