Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (born 1982) is an American writer, independent scholar, poet, activist and educator based in Durham, North Carolina. Gumbs writes about and speaks about the lives and issues affecting queer women of color and has been described by Lea Hulsen of the German academic journal, KULT_Online, as a “Black Feminist love evangelist,”. Gumbs describes herself as a "Queer Black Troublemaker" and "aspirational cousin to all sentient beings." In her experimental triptych -- Spill, M Archive, and Dub -- Gumbs explores the implications of humanity’s struggle with ecological disruption and Black feminist theory and refusals.