Undrowned with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Name: Undrowned with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Start: 2026-10-02T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-02T14:00:00-04:00
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Fri, Oct 2, 2026

12:30 PM – 2 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Join us as we hear from Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist, poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs as she discusses her book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals.

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational favorite cousin to all life. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Alexis’s books are portable textual ceremonies. Her award-winning meditation Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals offers the critical interspecies love song we need at this urgent stage of our collective evolution.

Alexis is also is currently working her next book in honor of June Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer, A Homemade Field of Love (forthcoming from Yale University Press).

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Co-hosted with: Sexuality, Women, and Gender Center (SWAG), McKeen Center for the Common Good, Bowdoin Environmental Action Team, Sociology, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Africana Studies, English, Education, Anthropology, Earth & Oceanographic Science , Biology, Theater & Dance, Bowdoin Carbon Fee and Dividend Movement , Philosophy, Government and Legal Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Lectures and Concerts Committee