Today’s discussion is with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a scholar and poet living and working in Durham, North Carolina. In addition to a number of scholarly and popular pieces, she is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, Dub: Finding Ceremony, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, and most recently Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Across this conversation, we explore the meaning of Black Studies for Black feminist thinking, the relation of writing and expressive life to healing, and the place of history and memory for healing in times of political and cultural crisis.