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Zilkha Auditorium - Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX,
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Join celebrated poet, scholar and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs as she explores her latest book, illuminating the extraordinary life of acclaimed ‘Black feminist lesbian warrior poet’ Audre Lorde.
In this account, Gumbs positions Lorde as a survivor: of childhood disability injustice, of her best friend’s suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood the war going on within her cells was connected to the struggle against oppression taking place all around her.
Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force, showing us the grand possibility of life together on earth.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, scholar and activist. She has published several books, including Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, which won a Whiting Award in non-fiction. In 2023, Gumbs received a Windham Campbell Prize for her ‘luminous, visionary poetry’.
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