Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, and a time traveller and space cadet. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind intergalactic community school and the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming experiential archive amplifying generations of Black Queer Brilliance. She designed the Indigo Afterschool Program, Indigo Night School and the Indigo Days weeklong retreat as opportunities for black women of different ages to make rituals and explore their magic. Alexis earned her PhD in English, Black Studies and Women’s Studies at Duke University in 2010 and a Too Sexy for 501 C3 trophy soon thereafter. Alexis writes on topics including abolition, black feminism, caribbean women’s literature, critical black diaspora studies and more. She is widely published in scholarly, activist and literary publications and is recently featured in Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Activists, was selected for Best Experimental Writing 2015 and is co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines which will be available from PM Press in February 2016. Alexis is a 2004 graduate of Barnard College.