Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and a Homemade Field of Love

Date: 

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom & Knafel Center, 10 Garden St, Cambridge

Alexis Pauline Gumbs will offer an ecofeminist exploration into how the works of Black feminist poets Audre Lorde and June Jordan can speak to our current climate crisis.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs will offer an ecofeminist exploration into how the works of Black feminist poets Audre Lorde and June Jordan can speak to our current climate crisis.

She is one of the first researchers to visit the archival papers of Audre Lorde at Spelman College and of June Jordan at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library and the author of the forthcoming Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and articles such as "June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis."

DiscussantTerry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence, Harvard Divinity School; writer, naturalist, and activist

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