Tonight! In person in Chicago and live streaming at 7pm central.💜 youtube.com/live/yJ8Sy8VOz…

It was a pleasure hearing alexispauline read from her new book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, at the final Saturday session of #Socialism2024. The book was released this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Socialism Conference us.macmillan.com/books/97803746… #books

The way folks engaged the complications of solidarity last night at #Socialism2024 was a deep well of love. If you missed it, you can watch here. 💜🙏🏽💜 I’m so grateful to Aricka Foreman for inviting me and for everyone at Haymarket Books.💜 #audre4ever youtube.com/live/yJ8Sy8VOz…

Tonight!

Free All Necks | alexispauline | The Yale Review How the groundbreaking work of artist and teacher Alma Thomas inspired a generation of Black students yalereview.org/article/alexis…

"I am insisting that the story is not over and it can never end. Audre Lorde is not merely a historical figure; she is a presence." Whiting winner alexispauline discusses SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, for Truthout buff.ly/3Mqrsoc

Please read this now. I am so grateful for the care and accountability Black Women Radicals always leads with. And as always forever grateful for Barbara Smith tireless anti-imperialist work and black feminist praxis. 💜

Today is Richard Wright’s birthday. Here’s is an article I wrote on his existentialism. I argue he did not become existentialist after going to Paris and hanging out w/Sartre and Beauvoir. There were existential themes in his earlier writings before he met them /read their work.

So excited!!! I’m also learning so much about the radical history of Whitechapel!!!

Happening now at Whitechapel Gallery Precious Adesina

reading alexispauline's biography of Audre Lorde after reading APG's poetry collections, which use a unique compositional/citational style (poems are annotations/inspirations from Black feminist scholars) is really something. it's a continuity of citational interconnectedness

My latest for The Nation. I got to interview alexispauline author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde out now from Macmillian Publishers!

Finally remembered to come back and watch the beginning of this, previously I only caught the audience engagement part at the end, which was amazing

Audre Lorde Has More to Tell Us Than a Handful of Quotes | The Nation A conversation with @AlexisPauline s, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Black feminist writer, on her biography Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Toni Cade Bambara said, “In periods of high consciousness, one has to build the network and the foundation to sustain one through periods of high conflict and low consciousness.”