
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Author · 8 books
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the Founder and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina.
Books
We can learn to mother ourselves
The queer survival of Black feminism 1968-1996.
2026

Survival Is a Promise
The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
2024

Mouths of Rain
An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
2021

Spill
Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
2016

M Archive
After the End of the World
2018

Transformative Justice Science Fiction Reader
2025

Dub
Finding Ceremony
2020

Undrowned
Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
2020