Archive for October, 2011
Love is Lifeforce: June Jordan and the Horizon of Education 11/1/11 at 6:30 pm
Greetings loved ones! I’d love to see you at the second installment of the Survival Series: Black Feminism for the Future at Stanford L. Warren Library!
In this the second part in the “Survival Series: Black Feminism for the Future” this lecture draws on author June Jordan’s essay “The Creative Spirit in Children’s Literature” which explains that “love is lifeforce” and describes the intergenerational work of nurturing the spirits of children as the most sacred work that adults can do. In a time when the education budgets for Durham schools are under attack and the Wake County schools are actively resegregating, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will present a multi-faceted vision for educational justice in our times.
Sowing Parables: Octavia Butler, Resource Justice and a Shift in Values
Tuesday October 18th
6:30-8:30pm
Stanford L. Warren Library
1201 Fayetteville Street
Durham, North Carolina 27707
The first in the “The Survival Series” Black Feminism for the Future” this lecture draws on the relevance of black feminist Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents” to offer an urgent and empowering perspective on our present-day resource crises. Black Feminist scholar Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will provide context and a framework for a visionary approach to everyday life in the context of shifting planet followed by a Q & A and talk back with organizers and experts from the food justice movement.
