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 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Audre Lorde stands as a towering figure in literature and activism, her voice as urgent and resonant today as when her works first emerged. A self-proclaimed “Black, lesbian ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...