Alexis Pauline Gumbs describes herself as a “Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.” She will be bringing an interactive lecture to the Levis Faculty Center (room 300) on November 1st at 7:30 p.m., where she’ll speak on “the connections between marine mammal adaptation and the legacies of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.”
Gumbs has written multiple books, including Revolutionary Mothering, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, Dub: Finding Ceremony, and her most recent Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Illini Union Bookstore will have them available for purchase at the event, and Gumbs will be doing books signings following the lecture.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Kinship Aspirations: An Interspecies Middle Passage
Levis Faculty Center
919 W Illinois Street
Urbana
November 1st, 7:30 p.m.