Event Lectures and Symposia Harriet Tubman and Audre Lorde, Icons of Resistance: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Tiya Miles

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, August 24, 2024

    10:50 am - 11:50 am EDT

  • This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.

  • Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building)

    801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival

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Black women occupy a long intellectual tradition in America — one that’s in part about social justice and defiance of the world as it is. Harriet Tubman and Audre Lorde are two of its icons, people with idiosyncrasies and nuance. Alexis Pauline Gumbs (“Survival Is a Promise”) and Tiya Miles (“Night Flyer”) help us complicate portrayals of Lorde and Tubman. Moderated by Martha S. Jones.

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