Episode 19 | Black Feminist Fugitivity – Hortense Spillers & Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Conversation

On this special episode Left of Black, guest host Alexis Pauline Gumbs is in conversation with foundational Black Feminist Theorist Hortense Spillers.

Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University and the author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (University of Chicago Press, Spring 2003) and the groundbreaking essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”. Gumbs is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press), co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the Founder and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina.