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SUMMARY:Food for the Soul/Inside Scoop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
DESCRIPTION:Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite\, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities have held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis’s co-edited volume of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press\, 2016) has shifted the conversation on mothering\, parenting and queer transformation. Alexis has transformed the scope of intellectual\, creative and oracular writing with her triptych of experimental works published by Duke University Press (Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity in 2016\, M Archive: After the End of the World in 2018 and Dub: Finding Ceremony forthcoming in 2020.) Unlike most academic texts\, Alexis’s work has inspired artists across form to create dance works\, installation work\, paintings\, processionals\, divination practices\, operas\, quilts and more. \nAlexis is the founder of Brilliance Remastered\, an online network and series of retreats and online intensives serving community accountable intellectuals and artists in the legacies of Audre Lorde’s profound statement in “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” that the preceding statement is “only threatening to those…who still think of the master’s house as their only source of support.” Through retreats on ancestor accountable intellectual practice\, and online courses on topics from anger as a resource to transnational intellectual solidarity Alexis and her Brilliance Remastered collaborators have nurtured a community of thinkers and artists grounded in the resources that normative institutions ignore. \nAll of Alexis’s work is grounded in a community building ethic and would not be possible without her communities of accountability in Durham\, NC the broader US Southeast and the global south. As a co-founder member of UBUNTU A Women of Color Survivor-Led Coalition to End Gendered Violence\, Warrior Healers Organizing Trust and Earthseed Land Collective in Durham\, NC\, a member of the first visioning council of Kindred Southern Healing Justice Network and a participant in Southerners on New Ground\, Allied Media Projects\, Black Women’s Blueprint and the International Black Youth Summit for more than a decade she brings a passion for the issues that impact oppressed communities and an intimate knowledge of the resilience of movements led by Black\, indigenous\, working class women and queer people of color. Her writing in key movement periodicals such as Make/Shift\, Left Turn\, The Abolitionist\, Ms. Magazine\, and the collections Abolition Now\, The Revolution Starts at Home\, Dear Sister and the Transformative Justice Reader have offered clarity and inspiration to generations of activists. \nAlexis’s work with her primary collaborator Sangodare has shown the world a Queer Black Feminist Love Ethic in practice. Over the past 11 years they have nurtured the Mobile Homecoming Project\, an experiential archive amplifying generations of Black LGBTQ Brilliance which has consisted of listening tour of the United States (in a 1988 Winnebago!) 7 intergenerational retreats and pilgrimages in the Southeast US\, a media and audio archive of many Black Feminist LGBTQ elders and is now in the land stewardship phase of building a living library and archive that serves as an all ages independent and assisted living community of intergenerational learning and love. Sangodare and Alexis are also the co-founders of Black Feminist Film School\, an initiative to screen\, study and produce films with a Black feminist ethic. Sangodare and Alexis have also collaborated on the exhibition Breathing Back at the Carrack Gallery in Durham\, NC and more than 50 visits to campuses\, organizations and conferences in the United States.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/food-for-the-soul-inside-scoop-with-alexis-pauline-gumbs/
LOCATION:Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center\, 1212 W. Nevada St.\, Urbana\, IL\, 61801
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SUMMARY:Piloting Archival Processing: Insights from the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive (Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Archivist Steven Booth joins the RBML virtually to discuss the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) archive: acquired in 2019 by a consortium of philanthropic and cultural heritage organizations\, the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive is co-owned by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Dating from 1942\, when John H. and Eunice W. Johnson founded JPC\, to the 21st century\, the Archive contains over 4.5 million photographs of published and unpublished works documenting the Black experience\, many of which were taken by staff photographers and featured in JPC’s 12 publications\, most notably Jet and Ebony. In addition to the historically significant events and behind-the-scenes moments depicted\, the Archive presents an unmatched and unique record of many facets of the life\, work\, and contributions of Black individuals\, communities\, groups\, organizations\, and businesses. In preparation for full-scale archival processing\, archivists from the GRI and JPC project staff conducted a two-part pilot to test and evaluate the efficiency of the processing guidelines\, workflows\, and tools developed for rehousing and cataloging the photographs. This presentation will provide insight into the planning\, preparation\, and implementation of the JPC Archive processing pilot and offer lessons learned for cultural heritage professionals and the community to consider when working with large-scale archival collections. \nSteven D. Booth (he/him) is an archivist\, independent researcher\, and co-founder of The Blacktivists. He is currently the archivist of the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive at the Getty Research Institute. He has been an active member of SAA since 2008 and was named an SAA Fellow in 2022. \nRegister for this webinar here: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u5eswrMLRkuoWEi-Skb-ZQ#/registration
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/piloting-archival-processing-insights-from-the-johnson-publishing-company-jpc-archive-webinar/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:16th Annual Lincoln Lecture Series — Voices of Our Past: Ann Bradford Stokes
DESCRIPTION:Museum of the Grand Prairie\, Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve\, 2 p.m.  \nJoin us as history comes to life with another event in the 16th Annual Lincoln Lecture Series! The theme of this year’s series is “Voices of Our Past” and will feature first-person interpretations of African-American voices present during the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Ann Bradford Stokes worked aboard the Navy’s first Hospital Ship “Red Rover” of Mound City\, Illinois. She worked with sick and wounded soldiers aboard the United States Naval Hospital Ship throughout the Western Theater of the Civil War on both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries. She volunteered with the Sisters of the Holy Cross and Naval ship officers working as “first class boy\,” cook\, laundress\, mender- anything to get food to eat. Eventually\, Ann assumed the role of a nurse\, leading to the beginning of a profession that would last generations. She was the first woman to earn a pension for her work with the U.S.N. Red Rover. After 18 months as an African American Civil War nurse\, she left service in November 1864. Several years later\, Ann learned to read and write. She settled\, remarried\, and remained in Southern Illinois for the rest of her life. In a fascinating reenactment\, Marlene Rivero will breathe life back into Ann Bradford Stokes story\, captivating audiences and informing new learners. FREE. For more info: (217) 586-2612 or pcain@ccfpd.org. \nWebsite Event Listing – Ann Bradford Stokes \nFacebook Event Listing – Ann Bradford Stokes
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/16th-annual-lincoln-lecture-series-voices-of-our-past-ann-bradford-stokes/
LOCATION:Museum of the Grand Prairie\, 950 N. Lombard St.\, Mahomet\, IL\, 61853
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