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We are so excited that the amazing Alexis Pauline Gumbs author, poet, Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist and aspirational cousin to all sentient beings, is working on a Text Of Repair for Ways Of Repair: Loss and Damage! 

Alexis is the author of Survival Is a Promise : The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)  Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press, 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke University Press, 2020), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke University Press, 2018), and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press, 2016).

Guided by the last works of the poet and environmentalist Audre Lorde, Alexis will create a written ceremony that meets us at the shoreline of loss, the swell of grief, the multi-life form convergence of disaster, with questions, offerings and provocations that support us in finding a collective way forward in the details of our survival. The provisional title for the text is Generating Survival: A Ceremony for Transforming Loss. ‍

The Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program is supported by the Open Society Foundations and is a part of the Loss and Damage Collaboration’s Art and Culture program.