When: Tuesday, October 15, 4:00 – 5:30 PM

Where: Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Seating is on a first-come basis. 

Join us for Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley on her recent book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.

The author will sign books purchased on site, courtesy of The Reparations Club. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a self-described “Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.” She has revolutionized intellectual, creative and oracular writing with her triptych of experimental works published by Duke University Press (Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity in 2016, M Archive: After the End of the World in 2018 and Dub: Finding Ceremony, 2020.) She is also the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. In 2023, she won a Windham Campbell Prize for her poetry.

Co-sponsored by:

CSW|Streisand Center, UCLA Department of English, UCLA Department of History, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in History