Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Judith Kiros

This seminar series is part of “A Season of Black Study” and curated by the research project FutureBrownSpace, an initiative of Afro-Diasporic practitioners, based in Black Studies, dedicated to creating nourishing spaces for people of the global majority to develop their projects (of art, of being, of activism or community) and for anyone who wishes to appreciate, and join in its significance for a more coalitional, less neo-colonial future; whether your access to Black Study is through the brown, the decolonial, the neurodivergent, whether you find black affinities with your class struggle, gender battles or variously abled superpowers, if you can move with it, tremble with it, let it break you out of abstraction and shake some non-censored sense into you, then you can be with us in Black Study.

This Season brings together artists, researchers and organizers from Sweden, performance art and theatre from South Africa, and scholars from the U.S, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of black study.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Judith Kiros

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines. In 2020, she was awarded the National Humanities Center Fellowship for her book-in-progress, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: A Cosmic Biography.

In conversation with Judith Kiros.

Judith Kiros is a co-founder of Kontext Press, a cross-media platform for thoughtful journalism and critical entertainment launched in 2019. In 2019, Kiros debuted "O," a mix of essays and poetry, in which she explores blackness and feminism based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

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