A conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Black feminist writer, on her biography Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Audre Lorde ...

In the third chapter of “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde,” titled “prologue,” author and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes, “This biography will consider what Audre ...

They spent the summer researching the prismatic afterlives of Audre Lorde and traveled to Durham, N.C., to spend time with her newest biographer, the poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Even if you don’t ...

“Neither of us has forever,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotes Audre Lorde in her expansive biography of the prolific, Harlem-born poet and essayist. Lorde wrote this in a letter to Pat ...

Stonewall Book Award Winner, “ The Black Flamingo ” was voted by Time Magazine as a Best YA Book Of All Time. The book tells ...

Audre Lorde—first of her name, breaker of limitations, guardian of complexity. She's a Black lesbian feminist icon. It's hard to talk about intersectionality and radical love without mentioning ...

Audre Lorde taught us the importance of caring for ourselves from her vantage point as a radical activist. In her 1988 essay collection A Burst of Light, she reflected, “I had to examine ...