Bienveni, bel bonjou, welcome tout moun! We hope you have all enjoyed a sweet summer! We at Kwazman Vwa certainly have, but we are also very much looking forward to being back in community with each other and with you all. Our first guest this season is scholar, poet, author, teacher, activist, Black feminist love evangelist, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. When our collective first got together a few years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, we made a list of dream guests we would love to be in conversation with, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs was on the earliest of lists. It means so much to us to be starting this season off with her. Her work is essential to making Caribbean lives visible in all their opacity and in effacing the arbitrary borders between disciplines — borders that often maintain Caribbean studies apart from Black feminist thought, poetics and nearly everything else. We will be discussing her latest work, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, which just came out with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An audio version of the book is already available, read by Gumbs herself, and it is a treasure. This event is generously sponsored by the Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Please join us for this conversation via zoom by registering using the form below.
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