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Writers Read presents Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Conversation with Amber Rose Johnson


Date & time
Monday, November 11, 2024
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

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Speaker(s)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Amber Rose Johnson

Cost

This event is free

Contact

Rachael Riley

Where

John Molson Building
1450 Guy
Room MB9 - ABCD

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

To celebrate Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Writers Read invites renowned poet, author and thinker Alexis Pauline Gumbs to Concordia.

Supported by Amber Rose Johnson, Alexis will read from the innovative work and discuss how "Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation."

Pre-registration required.

About the speakers

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is a queer Black feminist love evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. Publisher’s Weekly calls her writing “groundbreaking.”

She is also the author of four earlier books aka portable textual ceremonies, including Undrowned which won the 2022 Whiting Award in Non-Fiction. A recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry, the National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a National Humanities Center Fellowship, Dr. Gumbs lives and loves in Durham, North Carolina.

www.alexispauline.com

Dr. Amber Rose Johnson is a scholar, artist and space-maker from Providence, RI, who has recently relocated to Montreal. Across her interdisciplinary practice, she explores experimental poetics and performance as critical methods for reconfiguring our worlds.

She is the coeditor of Colored People Time (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) and her writing has been featured in BOMB literary magazine, Artforum and Bookforum. She is a recent graduate of the English and Africana Studies PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania, a former M3C postdoctoral fellow at McGill, and now an Assistant Professor of English at McGill University.

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