Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the granddaughter of Anguillian revolutionaries Jeremiah and Lydia Gumbs. Alexis is also the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, the coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, and the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, based in Durham, North Carolina.

Map – Issue 23

Map of Anguilla, BWI. Handed to Alexis Pauline Gumbs by Jeremiah Gumbs.

All footnotes refer to Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter’s “Ethno or Sociopoetics,” published in Alcheringa / Ethnopoetics 2, 1976, and “No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues,” published in Voices of the African Diaspora 8.2, 1992,…