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a queer black mobilehomecoming
BrokenBeautiful Press is partnering with Queer Renaissance to embark on a monumental journey in celebration of the bravery and genuis of the trailblazers of the black queer/lesbian/gender-non-conforming community. Think “black lesbian Eyes on the Prize” y’all! A year from today Alexis and Julia will be getting in an environmentally sustainable RV and hitting the road to learn, document and transmit the legacies of brave black queer warriors who have been transforming the meaning of life since the 1980’s or earlier and hosting amazing intergenerational community education events all over the US. To find out more and to offer resources, advice or financial support go to: www.mobilehomecoming.wordpress.com
Alexis is…making love (or reading lists) all of the time. Let me know what you think!
Browse That Little Black Book: Alexis’s (Theoretically) Black Blogspace
Buy SPEAK! a CD by radical womyn of color featuring two poems by Alexis and a free curriculum.
Check out the current issue of Make/Shift Magazine, featuring a section called Letters to Black Feminist Ancestors”
Read Alexis’s essay “Buy One. Get One. Free.: A Pedagogy of Debt”, part of the Enough project.
Check out Alexis’s work in the latest issue of Left Turn
Read Alexis’s article “But Some of Us Are Brazen: Lust for a Black Queer Community” and her monthly column on black lesbians in publishing in Treazure Magazine
Read Alexis’s poem “Because” for the mothers of UBUNTU in the current issue of WombPoetry
Order the extremely limited edition Cleromancy poetry divination game hand-crafted for June Jordan and lovingly curated by your own Alexis!
Read “This is Love: Embracing Outerspace in a State of Emergency” (Political Musings on Me’shell Ndgecello’s “Comfort Woman”) in Brownstone Magazine
Read Alexis’s Biased Review of OutKast’s Idlewild Film
Check Out Alexis’s Poetry in Girlchild Press Bestseller:Growing Up Girl
Audit Alexis’s Online College Course: To Be A Problem: The Figure of the OutKast in Black Literature at (or request to drop by the “in person version at Duke University if you’re in North Carolina)
AND spread the word with this To Be A Problem Flyer
Stalk Alexis on Myspace
Coming soon: Alexis’s prose-poem “Deagalear Magalama: A Blue Airmail Letter in Macomere and a review of Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: Journey Along the Transatlantic Slave Route in Obsidian: Black Literature in Review
Hello Alexis,
My name is Fallon and I’m organizing with other women of color around the the Dunbar Gang Rapes and West Virginia Torture/Rape case. Well, I was wondering if you have time to participate in a phone conference on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 9pm/central about organizing to end silences surrounding Megan Williams’ torture and rape in Logan and the gang rape of several Black women in West Palm Beach Florida.
Well, I’ve been circulating a 2 minute movie entitled, “How do you keep a Social Movement Alive.”
This movie documents the silence surrounding Megan Williams’ torture and rape in Logan and the gang rape of several Black women in West Palm Beach Florida. The purpose of this movie is to document the silences within our relationships, within our homes, within our families, within our communities, within our jobs, within our schools, within our churches, temples, and synagogues, within our governments, and within our world.
Also, I love the energy of your blog and was wondering if I could speak with you about tips on designing a blog that will be dedicated to documenting silences. But given the organizing we are trying to do, I need to reorganize the blog and use wordpress instead of blogger. This is the current blog,
http://documentthesilence.blogspot.com/
I look forward to connecting with you,
Fallon
PS I sent an email to brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com with the agenda of the phone conference.
here’s the link to the movie clip, http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=E44BFBCE67BF11DC9030000423CF037A
Hello Alexis,
Also, If you can’t do the phone conference would you be interested in being a part of the Women of Color Bloggers Breaking the Silences Contingency on the Web which would mean inundating the web with information about Wearing Red Campaign on the October 31, 2007 as well as circulating clips and other media trying to get stories of violence committed against women of color out on the web?
I look forward to connecting with you,
Fallon
You can email me at beboldered@gmail.com.
Dear Alexis,
Ha, just stumbled upon this site. Beautiful. I am going to send you a message cause I love this site! Fierce.. plus I’m tripping cause I know the aforementioned Fallon personally and it makes so much sense that she would’ve found this site.
Beautiful here!
-intisar
Alexis,
My sister, my Homie, my love – sending you soo much love, strength, and peace. Your website revolution is soo fierce!!! It is amazing!!!
Can’t wait to see you again . . . hope our paths cross again sometime very soon.
Peace and numerous blessings, Jalan
Hi,
We met at the (A)POC conference in Ashville a ways back, and then spoke briefly at the Sarah Lawrence conference recently. I gave you all the Assata cards from Ashanti, and then told you I’d like to put you all in touch with Mothsquad, a slightly defunct group in Richmond, VA that worked to amass resources for survivors and do other, related work. I worked with a couple of groups in Argentina around issues of sexual violence from April 2006-07, and recently finished a piece about that which I’d love to send your way. Also, if you know Sendolo, I think it’s going to be in the (maga-)zine that he’s doing together with a friend of his right now.
I’d like to talk to you about the work you’re doing, and also, I’d like to speak very specifically about SONG and Ubuntu in a different context. I’m working on a project with a couple friends right now, and we’re trying to finish up the list of groups that we’re trying to get money for. You can see the very rough version at 100forjustice.org, but basically I have a few questions as I try to sort out the interwoven orgs of Durham and the surrounding area. If you could get in touch with me, I’d really appreciate it. You can email me, and I’ll send you back my phone number.
Thanks so much, and hope you’re doing wonderfully well,
Gaurav Jashnani
This site is inspiring. Thanks sistah
I am so blessed that I get to cross paths with you every so often and in such beautiful spaces. Atl any time soon?
love
I wanted to stop by and leave a thanks for your interest in our online book club.
To answer the questions in your comment. It’s going to be open forum so as many women as possible can participate. Just check back the first of each month for the book selection and reading schedule.
As far as promotion, it really has been just word of mouth and/or type. The initial blog entry should give the basics and if you have any questions or suggestions, just leave comments. This is my first stint at moderation so I’m just trying to make it good.
Thanks again for your interest and support. I’ve been looking through your blog and am already making notes of further reading.