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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a community-accountable feminist poet and educator in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines.

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finding ceremony: a song for/from seven generations

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs January 31, 2018September 16, 2020

"stomp until it become dance. stomp until it be. come dance. wake us with your feet.
we live in your hips. wake us with your hips. we live in the ground. keep dancing"

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Poem: Three Southern Bops

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs December 30, 2016December 3, 2020

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