Sunday, September 26, 2010

has not come back/ to apologize: lucille clifton rebirth broadcast #14

has not come back/ to apologize: lucille clifton rebirth broadcast #14 from Alexis Gumbs on Vimeo.




Be good to yourself. Be good to each other. What are the insights that unresolved hurtful experiences in your life are offering to your community right now in our journey of healing together and loving each other right?

To learn more about the Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Survival School see: www.blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/survival-school

Monday, September 20, 2010

the earth is a living thing: lucille clifton rebirth broadcast #13

the earth is a living thing: lucille clifton rebirth broadcast #13 from Alexis Gumbs on Vimeo.


What do you need to brush of your shoulders? Release!!!! Your healing and the healing of the planet are deeply intertwined.

love,
lex (and lucille)

blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/​survival-school

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Grandmother Miracle: An Evening of Poetic Praise

6pm on Thursday September 16th at the Inspiration Station!

In honor of my grandmother Lydia May Gibbs/Gumbs on her birthday, I invite you to an evening dedicated to writing and sharing poetry for and about our living, transcendent, given, chosen, grandmas, big mamas, nanas, ma dears, meemaws, abuelitas etc.

Bring a snack if you like and be ready to write!

Lex

Monday, September 13, 2010

atlantic is a sea of bones: lucille clifton rebirth broadcast #12

atlantic is a sea of bones: lucille clifton rebirth broadcast #12 from Alexis Gumbs on Vimeo.



What legacies haunt the places that you live and pass through? What are the voices of forgotten, erased and violated ancestors teaching you today?

To learn more about the Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Survival School visit: www.blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/survival-school

To view earlier rebirth broadcasts see:

www.blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/category/shapeshifting

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Here (for Assata Goff)

Here

after Lucille Clifton’s “Crazy Horse Names His Daughter”


for Assata Goff


call down the name freedom call

up the spirit of no matter what now call

your shared name liberation veins steel will

fierce focus shielding sacred smile laugh

your own name radiant as cuba

laugh your yawning name into language laugh

in the face of any power that does not know you laugh

to save life from leaning and falling over laugh

planting yes between sidewalk cracks up mural walls

and we will sing your grace walk like we know laugh

earned and eternal when we speak

Assata is here

Monday, September 06, 2010

Crazy Horse Names His Daughter: Lucille Clifton Rebirth Broadcast #11

Crazy Horse Names His Daughter: Lucille Clifton Rebirth Broadcast #11 from Alexis Gumbs on Vimeo.




This week our Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter assignment is to cast names of powerful people in our lives and in our history into the future and to create a ritual or list of naming that describes the energy in the names of the children in your family, life or community.

To see all the Lucille Clifton Rebirth Broadcasts see http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/category/shapeshifting/

And to learn more about the Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Survival School and the upcoming Everett Anderson Storytime week see: blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/survival-school

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Eternal Something: Alternate ROOTS Testifies

Eternal Something from Alexis Gumbs on Vimeo.

Brilliance! The participants in the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Studio at the Alternate ROOTS annual meeting TESTIFY!!!!

blackfeministmind.wordpress.com