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SUMMARY:2026 Stone Memorial Lecture by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
LOCATION:The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and H
 istory Stone Center Auditorium\, 150 South Road\, Chapel Hill\, NC
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Title: A Homemade Field of Love: Expansive Understandi
 ngs of Growth in Times of Change\n\nDescription: Community cherished Blac
 k feminist writer and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs will lead an interacti
 ve lecture inspired by the “field” as a form of life\, from a field of co
 llard greens\, to the quantum field. These mediations on “the field” are 
 inspired by her research on June Jordan\, Fannie Lou Hamer\, George Washi
 ngton Carver and her most recent book Primary: After and With Alma Thomas
 . And what fertilizes it all is the legacy of Sonja Haynes Stone whom thi
 s lecture celebrates as a founder of the infinitely possible field of Bla
 ck Studies.\n\nDr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Ev
 angelist and an aspirational favorite cousin to all life. Her work in thi
 s lifetime is to facilitate infinite\, unstoppable ancestral love in prac
 tice. Alexis’ books are portable textual ceremonies. Her most recent book
  Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde revolutionizes th
 e scale of life writing. Her award-winning meditation Undrowned: Black Fe
 minist Lessons from Marine Mammals offers the critical interspecies love 
 song we need at this urgent stage of our collective evolution. Alexis is 
 also currently working her next book in honor of June Jordan and Fannie L
 ou Hamer\, A Homemade Field of Love (forthcoming from Yale University Pre
 ss). Alexis is currently a Monument Lab Fellow and a Loss and Damage Coll
 aborative Commissioned Author creating ceremony in honor of t\n\nhttp://n
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