For The Wild

Earthly Reads: Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Survival Is a Promise S1:5


Listen Later

In the fifth episode of our Earthly Reads series, we dive into a conversation with the renowned Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. This episode offers a preview of the live Earthly Reads Book Study, now available for purchase at forthewild.world/bookstudy.

Throughout the conversation, Gumbs threads together her thoroughly-researched and deeply-felt knowledge of Audre Lorde with her own personal wit, observation, and openness. She also speaks to her understanding of Lorde’s work as “geological,” following the connection Lorde draws between Blackness and our existence at every layer of Earth’s interior. Reminding us of the value of the collective, Gumbs shares lessons for reciprocity, earthly embodiment, and the poetry of living. 

Earthly Reads is a podcast series and online book study featuring conversations with some of our favorite authors including adrienne maree brown, Marcia Bjornerud, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill, Tricia Hersey, and Céline Semaan.

This episode is just a small glimpse into some of the incredible live conversations that will take place throughout the book study. For more details about the series and how to purchase access to the full study, visit forthewild.world/bookstudy.  

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis’s co-edited volume Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016) has shifted the conversation on mothering, parenting and queer transformation. Alexis has transformed the scope of 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.) Unlike most academic texts, Alexis’s work has inspired artists across form to create dance works, installation work, paintings, processionals, divination practices, operas, quilts and more.  

♫  The music featured in this series is by Cool Maritime, Matt Baldwin, and Sharada Shashidhar and Caleb Buchanan from the compilation Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires courtesy of our partner Leaving Records. Compilation proceeds are directed back into the community of artists and families impacted by the fires. Learn more at staying.bandcamp.com.

Support the show

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

For The WildBy For The Wild

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

1,137 ratings


More shows like For The Wild

View all
On Being with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios

On Being with Krista Tippett

10,059 Listeners

Upstream by Upstream

Upstream

1,734 Listeners

Embodied Astrology by Embodied Astrology

Embodied Astrology

921 Listeners

Living Myth by Michael Meade

Living Myth

914 Listeners

How to Survive the End of the World by How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World

2,017 Listeners

Medicine Stories by Amber M Hill

Medicine Stories

1,252 Listeners

Emergence Magazine Podcast by Emergence Magazine

Emergence Magazine Podcast

466 Listeners

This Jungian Life Podcast by Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

This Jungian Life Podcast

1,490 Listeners

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration by kaméa chayne

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

604 Listeners

Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo by Jessica Lanyadoo

Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo

4,171 Listeners

The Emerald by Joshua Schrei

The Emerald

843 Listeners

Accidental Gods by Accidental Gods

Accidental Gods

110 Listeners

Poetry Unbound by On Being Studios

Poetry Unbound

3,538 Listeners

Moonbeaming by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

Moonbeaming

1,113 Listeners

Sounds of SAND by Science and Nonduality

Sounds of SAND

112 Listeners