»ÆÉ«ÊÓƵ

All the Way Inside the Unimaginable

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist. Alexis’s co-edited volume 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, 2020.)

Hosted by the Black Studies Summer Seminar. The Black Studies Summer Seminar is a one-week, on-campus, research-intensive seminar that explores various themes in or connected to Black studies. It honours the field’s radical interdisciplinarity by centering collaboration, co-creation, and experiential learning. It brings together Black artists and scholars at the intersection of imagination and academic trajectories, necessitating alternative modalities of knowledge production and the intramural.

This year’s Black Studies Summer Seminar will take place in Kingston, Ontario, from June 9-13, 2025, featuring workshops, seminars, keynote lectures, and dedicated spaces for critical discussion, meaningful engagement, and gathering.