The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast

By: Angela Denise Davis
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  • The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast: A Sound Source for Black Lesbian Herstory.
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Episodes
  • Alexis Pauline Gumbs Speaks on Her New Audre Lorde Biography
    Aug 12 2024

    Alexis Pauline Gumbs’

    Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

    Book Reading Information:

    https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/survival-promise-eternal-life-audre-lorde-homecoming-celebration-alexis-pauline-gumbs-and

    Book Reading Registration:

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/survival-is-a-promise-the-eternal-life-of-audre-lorde-tickets-938622193247?aff=oddtdtcreator

    A queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and a prayer poet priestess,

    Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs was the first scholar to research the Audre Lorde Papers at Spelman College, the June Jordan Papers at Harvard University, and the Lucille Clifton Papers at Emory University during her dissertation research. We are eagerly awaiting her forthcoming biography, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde on August 20, 2024.

    https://www.alexispauline.com/

    Alexis’s work as a media maker and her curricula for participatory digital education have been activated in 143 countries. Her digital distribution initiative BrokenBeautiful Press, her work as co-founder of Quirky Black Girls and her loving participation in the Women of Color Bloggers Network in the early 2000’s established her as one of the forerunners of the social media life of feminist critical and creative practice. Alexis has been honored with many awards from her communities of practice including being lifted up on lists such as UTNE Readers 50 Visionaries Transforming the World, The Advocate’s 40 under 40, Go Magazines 100 Women We Love, the Bitch 50 List, ColorLines 10 LGBTQ Leaders Transforming the South, Reproductive Justice Reality Check’s Sheroes and more. She is a proud recipient of the Too Sexy for 501C-3 trophy, a Black Women’s Blueprint Visionary Award and the Barnard College Outstanding Young Alumna Award.

    From 2017-2019, Alexis served as visiting Winton Chair at University of Minnesota where she collaborated with Black feminist artists in the legacy of Laurie Carlos to create collaborative performances based on her books Spill and M Archive. During that time she served as dramaturg for the award winning world premiere of Sharon Bridgforth’s Dat Black Mermaid Man Lady directed by Ebony Noelle Golden.

    Alexis is a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize Winner in Poetry. Alexis’s most recent book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals won the 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction.

    Alexis was a 2020-2021 National Humanities Center Fellow, funded by the Founders Award, and is a 2022 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

    Original Photography of Alexis Pauline Gumbs by:

    Sufia Ikbal-Doucet

    Graphic Design of cover art image by:

    Angela Denise Davis

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Sharon Bridgforth with bull-jean & dem/dey Book Party
    Aug 12 2024

    This book party was hosted on May 27, 2023, at Charis Books & More in Decatur, Georgia. It featured esteemed writer Sharon Bridgforth in conversation with ZAMI NOBLA creative director Angela Denise Davis in celebration of bull-jean & dem/dey back.

    You can view the YouTube video of this event at:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EcaVl7dxo

    The ZNP previous interview of Sharon Bridgforth:

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/zaminobla/id/21629876

    Bull-jean & dem/dey back is a collection that unites two performance/novels centered on the southern-Black-butch-heroine, bull-jean. The Lambda Literary Award-winning bull-jean stories was first published by RedBone Press in 1998 and follows the journey of love rekindling throughout the lifetimes of bull-dog-jean. After a twenty-two-year hiatus, bull-dog-jean triumphantly returns in bull-jean/we wake. As the Narrator grieves the loss of their elders and seeks healing, they summon bull-jean for guidance. Be sure not to miss this inspiring event!

    A 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon Bridgforth is 2020-2023 Playwrights’ Center Core Member, a 2022-2023 McKnight National Fellow and a New Dramatists alumnae. She has received support from The Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her work is featured in Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature, Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought and Feminist Studies Vol 48 Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called by Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon has had the privilege of benefiting from support from the ZAMI NOBLA and Charis Books communities since 1998, when she toured with the RedBone Press edition of the bull-jean stories. In her new book, bull-jean & dem/dey back (53rd State Press) bull-jean returns in two performance/novels - both will be produced as main stage productions at Pillsbury House + Theatre in Minneapolis, MN in 2023. More at:

    https://www.sharonbridgforth.com

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Together We Heal: COVID-19's Mental Health Effects on Older Black Same Gender Loving Women
    Aug 12 2024

    Together We Heal: COVID-19's Mental Health Effects on Older Black Same Gender Loving Women

    Thursday, December 14, 2023 (ZOOM webinar)

    Findings from a COVID-19 Community Research Study led by Dr. Tonia Poteat, and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Mary Anne Adams, MSW, and ZAMI NOBLA: National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging

    The panelist discussed the mental health impacts of the pandemic, shared their insights, and provided strategies for healing and wellness.

    The panel was sponsored by BEAM

    Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective

    Panelists:

    Dr. Tonia Poteat

    Dr. Dionne Bates

    Jowanna Tillman

    Edonna Koon

    Moderator:

    Mary Anne Adams

    Jowanna Tillman and Edonna Koon Talk about Living the RV Life

    Release Date: 02/09/2020

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/zaminobla/id/13073057

    Dr. Dionne Bates Speaks on the Power of Words, Emotional Health, and Freedom

    Release Date: 08/15/2018

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/zaminobla/id/6932186

    Dr. Tonia Poteat on Deserving Research that Reflects Your Real Life Lived Experience

    Release Date: 12/05/2018

    https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/zaminobla/id/7814816

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    1 hr and 26 mins

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