Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Spill, Dub, and M Archive by @alexispauline.bsky.social are three of my favorite books and I always recommend them TOGETHER! I was rereading Spill early last year when I was called to think about fugitivity, resistance, and marronage after the election as inauguration.

Another Substack ditty, about that time I met @alexispauline.bsky.social (again!) and thoroughly enjoyed a lecture on June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, and what it means to claim Home. Enjoy! ♥️

Such wonderful news!!!!💜💜💜💜 www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

What to do in a moment of crisis? Turn towards each other. And breathe. This week’s September podcast is about a very wild situation @sangodarewallace and I found ourselves in and how we made it through! Listen wherever you get your podcasts!💜

Is that a Loveship? Or just a holding pattern? Our new podcast episode is up!💜 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I don’t know what 2026 holds for us collectively but I know that we will need the creativity, bravery and love of our revolutionary ancestors. Join me at noon eastern this Saturday (1/3) for a Black Feminist Breathing Reading of the year. All are welcome. On my IG live @alexispauline.💜

Want to start 2026 off with me?💜 sangodare.podia.com/one-on-one-c...

Join me in observing Audre Lorde’s ascension date and clearing the way for the future she is emboldening us to create. And see below for an IG live tonight. sangodare.podia.com/wide-futures...

Animals don’t belong in captivity and all the money spent to keep them there could go towards wildlife conservation and climate justice. But 🤷🏽‍♀️ If you can, here’s a beautiful read by @alexispauline.bsky.social

anthology. 💜 P.S. Remember what June Jordan said about Reagan. (It’s not his country, it’s ours.) www.salon.com/2025/10/30/i...

What if you open your heart? This weekend's kickoff of our 8 week cohort of Lovebirds was a revelation. You can read our group poem here. And if you didn't make it and you want to join...it's not too late. We are in Week One. Poem and details below <3 www.mobilehomecoming.org/love-today/2...

Ready to trust yourself and fall in love? We start tomorrow. sangodare.podia.com/trust-fall-a...

How do you learn to trust yourself again when you secretly blame yourself for every heartbreak? www.instagram.com/reel/DPwZ2WW...

Can our relationships be vessels for something greater than any of us? On this episode we draw on June Jordan’s revolutionary definition of love! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Today at NOON eastern!!!!💜💜💜💜

Can our love be louder than our fear? Inspired by our new podcast, September: A Podcast for Loveships. This is a playdate for Loveships, people in committed partnerships to support us as we hold each other through uncertain times. sangodare.podia.com/holding-hand...

“May the the part of me that loves Assata be water. May it be every part of me, may it flush out the fear the state insists on and turn it into faith.” www.alexispauline.com/now/assatarh...

sangodare.podia.com/the-god-of-e... Towards peace in your heart. In celebration of my first 900 (and 7) days of consecutive meditation I invite you to use the code EQUINOX for a discount on my daily practice space.

It’s official! You can now follow September: A Podcast for Loveships wherever you listen to podcasts! Have questions for me and @sangodarewallace about love and relationships? Your question could be featured on the first episode. What is your burning question about love as a spiritual practice?

Laureate indeed.💜 So glad Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival recorded and shared this special moment. So grateful for you Cheryl Boyce Taylor and everything you bring to our communities!💜 www.youtube.com/live/3-iFM2O...

Here is the group poem from our Cosmic Purpose Intensive. I reccomend reading it outloud!💜💜💜💜 www.alexispauline.com/now/2025/9/1...

How can we be compassionate with ourselves and each other and still show up to meet the moment? Tuesday Sept 9th at noon eastern join me to ground in this moment and breathe into our power. See you soon on IG live @alexispauline

It was wonderful to contribute this week to this celebration of filmmaker @pratibha.bsky.social work at the ICA London. A new book of essays by myself, Lola Olufemi, @alexispauline.bsky.social & more is available; “a gift for any artist”researcher and activist www.smingsming.com/products/our...

Time is a lesbian. 🌺 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

The face of a writer who just got a notification from @peoplemag.bsky.social that Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is a finalist for a ZORA (formerly known as the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award) in non-fiction alongside some amazing books including Salvage by DIONNE BRAND. 🤯

I’m so thrilled to announce that Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library Award in Non-fiction! And therefore I will be participating in the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Festival next month! Stay tuned for details NYC family.

Tonight. If you can’t make it, everyone who signs up gets the recording. 💜

Write with us tomorrow. A benefit for The Sameer Project 💜 sangodare.podia.com/who-would-ho...

Oh yes, Rebecca❤️‍🔥 —such rich and vital dream-ways ! I can listen to this conversation on the stunning portal of Black feminism dreaming with @alexispauline.bsky.social over and over: open.spotify.com/episode/5Inx...

I highly recommend this beautiful book (“Survival is a Promise: The eternal life of Audre Lorde by @alexispauline.bsky.social). It is beautifully written, a poetic prose, and so full of heart and wisdom and spirit. #booksky

“According to Audre Lorde, when she finally began to speak at five years old, she only spoke in poetry.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs, @alexispauline.bsky.social, reads from her book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, at the New York Public Library in September 2024. 📚💙

We love you Sheila!💜💜💜💜 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

@workingfamilies.org celebrating a CLEAN SWEEP! Four for four!!! Gratitude for the strategy, brilliance and love that fuels this movement!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 youtu.be/MmRo7PUtF6Q?...

So honored and in such great company!!!💜💜💜

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans YA: "I Wish You All the Best" by Mason Deaver (TOMORROW at 7 PM ET) 🐬 Queer Nonfiction: "Undrowned" by @alexispauline.bsky.social (7/15 at 7 PM ET) 🧑‍🍳 Sapphic Sci-Fi & Fantasy: "Interstellar Megachef" by @@lavanya.bsky.social‬ (7/23 at 7 PM ET) RSVP! www.eventbrite.com/o/qt-library...

My Juneteenth wish is the audacity of a teenage Audre Lorde blooming in your heart!💜🌺💜🌺 Join me for a solstice reset writing workshop at 6:30 pm eastern!💜 if you can’t make it live, everyone who signs up will get the recording!💜 sangodare.podia.com/wild-hope-a-...

See you tomorrow loved ones!!!!💜💜💜💜

Does anyone know of a long-term residential arts community in the US with care services for elders/chronically ill folks? I’m researching for a loved one. Thank you in advance.💜

This is an ID photo of Audre Lorde in Mexico where she fled as a student in response to McCarthyist repression. This solstice we are drawing on the student activist Audre, the surveilled suspended protesting sci-fi reading Audre who believed in other worlds and another version of this one.

Like many of you, I was furious to see a transphobic rich white person use a quote from Audre’s Lorde’s “A Litany for Survival” to justify her hateful and harmful attacks against trans women. I don’t play about my beloved community and I know you don’t either.

When Audre Lorde was a teenager she was terrified of nuclear war, hungrily reading as much science-fiction as she could find and writing poetry that imagined not only other worlds but other forms of living. sangodare.podia.com/wild-hope-a-...

It’s been a while since I have offered an online reflective writing workshop. But for our solstice intention setting I feel like we need the brazenness of a teenage Lorde. sangodare.podia.com/wild-hope-a-...

Happy official pub day to this scholarly interview I did on Audre Lorde, with the amazing Alexis Pauline Gumbs. I put a lot of work into it, including adding explanatory footnotes. And Alexis is amazing as always. It's open access in Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“The water in us has perfect memory,” wrote Alexis Pauline Gumbs in our Floods issue last summer. Water, she writes, is both an ancestor and a mirror. On floods, both literal and metaphorical, and what to learn from rising water.