Episode Summary:’Freedom is not a secret. It’s practice’, says our next guest speaker Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist… whose work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice.” In this intimate and candid conversation we dive into the poetical worlds of philosophy, Black feminism, and the concepts of mothering and daughtering with an invisible labor based behind the two. Today we ask Alexis her thoughts about the current state of ‘Apocalypse’, a never ending Healing, the legacy of one of the most powerful individuals of modernity Audre Lorde and Afro Caribbean culture. Alexis introduces us to eco-feminism and how her work contributes to the global conversation on environmentalism and climate change. Alexis’s writings have inspired international artists to create dance works, installation work, paintings, divination practices, operas, quilts and more.The Speaker:Alexis Pauline Gumbs` work is grounded in a community building ethic. As a co-founder member of UBUNTU A Women of Colour 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 colour. Her writings 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.Her book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals is a series of meditations based on the increasingly relevant lessons of marine mammals in a world with a rising ocean levels.Follow Alexis's journey on InstagramHosts: Elizabeth Zhivkova & Farah Piriye, ZEITGEIST19 FoundationSign up for ZEITGEIST19's newsletter at https://www.zeitgeist19.comFor sponsorship enquiries, comments, ideas and collaborations, email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TwitterHelp us to continue our mission and to develop our podcast: Donate