Birthing a New Planetary Consciousness: Black Feminists in Conversation

Birthing a New Planetary Consciousness: Black Feminists in Conversation
Thursday November 7, 2024
5:30-7pm
Fromm 115
Food will be provided

Join us to celebrate the launch of Alexis Pauline Gumbs new biography of Audre Lorde, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Julia Chinyere Oparah and Dr Gumbs will reflect on their involvement in the movement for Birth Justice, and then move outward to explore all the many struggles and consciousness shifts that we need to birth in order to achieve liberation. The event will culminate with a discussion of what we can learn from Black feminist poet and visionary Audre Lorde in this moment, and a short reading from Survival is a Promise. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. For her, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive—to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands.