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A new work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs explores the life of Audre Lorde

Durham-based scholar, poet and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs has written a comprehensive, genre-expanding biography of feminist icon Audre Lorde.

Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde grapples with Lorde’s life and legacy in the non-linear, meditative, naturalistic style for which Gumbs has become known over the course of her own decades-long literary career.

Leoneda Inge chats with her about her process and her personal history with Lorde’s work.

Guest

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, scholar, poet and author of Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.