Alexis Pauline Gumbs – Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
WBAI Radio’s OUT FM host Stahmili Mapp interviews writer /poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs
author of the magical, fascinating, inspiring new biography about poet Audre Lorde,
entitled Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Alexis describes herself as a queer, black, (self-described) troublemaker, Black Feminist
Evangelist, and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.
Her work is grounded in a community ethic and as such has founded or been a member
of UBUNTU- A Women of Color Survival Coalition to End Gendered Violence, Warrior
Healers Organizing Trust, and The Earth Seed Land Collective in Durham North
Carolina. In addition she has participated in the work of Southerners On New Ground, Allied Media
Projects, Black Women’s Blueprint and the International Black Youth Summit.
Other titles by her include: Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity , M Archive: After
the End of the World
Audio clip: Finding Ceremony
Audre Lorde Reading Poem “Power”
