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SUMMARY:2026 Stone Memorial Lecture by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Title: A Homemade Field of Love: Expansive Understandin
 gs of Growth in Times of Change Description: Community cherished Black fem
 inist writer and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs will lead an interactive lec
 ture inspired by the “field” as a form of life\, from a field of colla
 rd greens\, to the quantum field. These mediations on “the field” are 
 inspired by her research on June Jordan\, Fannie Lou Hamer\, George Washin
 gton 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 this l
 ecture celebrates as a founder of the infinitely possible field of Black S
 tudies. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist
  and an aspirational favorite cousin to all life. Her work in this lifetim
 e is to facilitate infinite\, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Alex
 is’ books are portable textual ceremonies. Her most recent book Survival
  is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde revolutionizes…\n\nhttps:
 //localz.events/e/2026-stone-memorial-lecture-by-dr-alexis-pauline-gumbs-1
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LOCATION:The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and Hi
 story\, 150 South Road\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, Chapel Hill
GEO:35.907852;-79.050272
URL:https://localz.events/e/2026-stone-memorial-lecture-by-dr-alexis-paulin
 e-gumbs-129963
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