Sangodare & Alexis for Mobile Homecoming Trust

A Sweet Space for Growth & Transformation

20 years of study and experience harnessed to support your journey FROM anywhere TO anywhere that Love guides you to go! I am a sweet space for transformation. I transgress gender and transcend the physical. I am Sangodare!

In collaboration with Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs we present Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library and Archive which exists to sustain the lives of Mobile Homecoming and Black Feminist elders, their care takers and legacy bearers. It grew out of Mobile Homecoming which exists as an intergenerational experiential archive project to amplify generations of Black LGBTQ brilliance. This is the practice space that grows out of that work.

Courses

$20 or 4 monthly payments of $5

100 Days: Support and Accountability

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$150

Black Feminist Breathing Chorus Winter 2020-2021

WELCOME to the Black Feminist Breathing Meditation Chorus. For 21 days in 2014 we chanted together all over the world. It led to a retreat, art exhibition and now the Black Feminist Breathing Oracle Deck. This REBOOT is an encouragement to our communities to #keepbreathing.

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$100

Black Feminist Breathing Deeper Love (Day)

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Black Feminist Breathing (BFB) for Lovebirds and all who love is grounded in the visionary lineages of Alexis's BFB Meditation Chorus. Together, we will practice chanting, mindfulness, immersive sound circles and dance that honor our deep communal roots and creative spirit. We conclude with "Sunday School"—a service of congregational singing, cathartic sermonics, and an oracle to infuse our lives with love.

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Combahee Throughline Immersion Practice

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$750

Daughter Rhymes with...in person BIPOC Writing Workshop (Mother's Day Edition)

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Deep Rescue: Toni Cade Bambara Immersion

Every year I celebrate Toni Cade Bambara's birthday as a high holy Black Feminist holiday. This year preparing this immersion meant reading and rereading my favorite Bambara short story "Madame Bai and the Taking of Stone Mountain" where a Korean elder "warrior-healer" comes to Atlanta in the midst of the 1979 wave of abductions and murders of Black children to train a cadre of people of color to fight against wh...

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$250

Eternal: Practicing Audre Lorde's SpaceTime

In Audre Lorde's final book of poetry The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance she demonstrates at least 21 manifestations of queer Black feminist spacetime. In this practice space Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs will guide you through 21 practices inspired by Audre Lorde's poetic reach.

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God is Change: Octavia Butler Immersion

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$175 or 4 monthly payments of $50

Inner Child Summer School

It has been five-hundred and sixty-one days since I hugged my mother. I miss her and I miss the version of me that she brings with her. To bridge the gap last year I dove deep into my mama's childhood photos of me, and in particular into what I am retroactively calling a series of portraits of my relationship with nature. And what I found was forgotten wisdom that my child self wanted to teach me again. What ...

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$200

Intro Black Feminist Film Development (Reboot 2024)

In this phase of the filmmaking process we journey together with your film idea or a draft of your script using ancestral and community accountable tools to develop it further. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional the Black Feminist Film school approach has been a tool to enhance, enliven and inspire creators in all forms and stages of practice/career.

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$1,000

Love is Lifeforce Daily Practice

This is a 5 day immersion in the influences and reprecussions of June Jordan's 1977 declaration that "love is lifeforce" in her talk "The Creative Spirit." This is an opportunity for you to cultivate a one on one relationship with this text which will be the foundation of everything we do during this semester-long experience.

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$500

One-on-one Cosmic Purpose Session with APG

Includes 1 private space

This is a one hour one on one session with Alexis Pauline Gumbs to honor your cosmic purpose. When you sign up you get immediate access to Alexis's essay "Definition of a Star."

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Includes 1 private space

One-on-one Cosmic Purpose Session with APG

$200

Repetition is Sacred: Practicing Seven Generations

You are here because you are ready to embrace the full support of your ancestors. And that means learning from what they embraced, what they avoided, what they longed for and what they denied. Honoring the generations before us and after us is a practice. We do it every day. Embark on a creative practice of ancestral listening with Alexis's daily love and support.

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Sculpted Impulse: An Ntozake Shange Immersion

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, literary advisor to the Shange Trust, created a portal into the life and work of Ntozake Shange beyond For Colored Girls for a special Africana Studies class at Barnard College in 2020. She has adapted this portal for anyone interested in Shange's approaches to breathing, ritual, sisterhood and more.

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$150 or 3 monthly payments of $55

Stardust and Salt: Daily Creative Practice

This 10-day series is designed to support you in creating a daily practice that opens up infinite possibility but that also STICKS in the context of your changing life. For 10 days you will wake up to Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs opening up your sky reading you a poem and offering you some nourishing reflections and questions from her unpublished series of "sky study" meditation poems. In the afternoon you w...

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$100 or 4 monthly payments of $30

Sustaining Sweetness: A Practice for Loveships

Includes 1 private space

This is a practice for LOVESHIPS. You can do these exercises anytime as partners to access supportive tools as you create intentional practices for the multiple forms of intimacy you are prioritizing in your lives together! All loveships are welcome to participate in this asynchronous course.

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Includes 1 private space

Sustaining Sweetness: A Practice for Loveships

$250 or 2 monthly payments of $150

TRUST FALL: Activation and Accompaniment for Lovebirds

Includes 1 private space

Trust yourself, and fall in love. Join us for 8 weeks of accompanied manifestation.

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Includes 1 private space

TRUST FALL: Activation and Accompaniment for Lovebirds

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The Eternal Caribbean Life of Audre Lorde: A 3 Day Online Intensive

Join us for a 3 day intensive on Audre Lorde's diasporic Caribbean daughterhood and our own complex relationships across difference drawing on poetry from Lorde's final book of poems THE MARVELOUS ARITHMETICS OF DISTANCE.

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$150 or 4 monthly payments of $50

The God of Every Day: A Week of Practice

"There are many names for god. The name I use is EVERY DAY." This course builds on Alexis Pauline Gumbs's work on daily practice with a series of poems, activities and meditations she created from her early study of the divine Akan language of (some of) her ancestors. These activities are for anyone who wants to cultivate or reactivate sacred supportive practices for their own lives.

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Free

The Q Light Stained Glass Interest List

We're gathered here because we are interested in stained glass —making it or having more access to it in our lives. If you want to know about workshops, commissioning a piece or purchasing a piece you're in the right place to stay in touch. Thank you. NOTE: To stay on this list opt-in to email contact. The point of this particular list/course is communication. I won't send out a bunch of emails from here.

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$120 or 2 monthly payments of $75

The Q Light: Stained Glass Workshop

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Learn to shape light and story—make stained glass with me. Join us for our 4th wkshp. Inspired by Audre Lorde and our own expansive spiritual practices, I am gathering us into the creative practice of shaping light and story. Join us for this 4hr stained glass workshop in Durham, NC facilitated by me (Sangodare) and taught by a local artisan. [Podia invite only 🙏🏾, Location shared after registration]

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Three Tries: Ancestor Accountable Writing

Based on seven version of a story my grandfather told me, this 7-part course is designed to support you in getting in touch with your own approach to writing in honor of and in collaboration with your ancestors.

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$200 or 3 monthly payments of $75

Transcend: Winter Study 2024

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This is preparation for in-person spring practice including invite only "Sunday" Service. It culminates with a practitioner only kick-off to our Transcend SPRING PRACTICE (Feb along with Audre Lorde's 90th birthday year celebration). The Winter Study is a self-guided study facilitated by Sangodare that includes audio & video that are informational & discursive and others that invite engagement & facilitate practice.

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Until Everybody's Free: Fannie Lou Hamer Immersion

Fannie Lou Hamer nurtured Black dignity, divinity and community building in the face of an electoral system shaped by and obedient to white supremacy. She confronted political corruption directly, built alternatives, addressed the basic needs of her people, built a broad and effective base of support and mentored and inspired generations. Now on her 103rd birthday, we need the specificity of her legacy as much as...

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$100

Where is the Love?: An Interactive Evolutionary Journey for Valentine's Day and Beyond

Where’s the Love is an interactive practice, an invitation to acknowledge, amplify and celebrate the love within and around you. It's a choose-your-own adventure game of reflection that you can do solo, with any type of partner or with a group. Prepare to access, amplify and practice a deeper love!

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$33.33

Wide Futures: A Nine Day Clearing in Honor of Audre Lorde

When Audre Lorde wrote the poems in The Black Unicorn she was afraid for her life. She had learned that she had breast cancer and needed a ceremony to activate her eternal self to guide her. For those of us who feel like we are losing the futures we imagined Audre teaches us that our futures are more expansive than we ever imagined.

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$200 or 5 monthly payments of $50

Wrapped in Ocean: Undrowned in Practice

"What is the scale of breathing? You put your hand on your individual chest as it rises and falters all day. But is that the scale of breathing? You share air and chemical exchange with everyone in the room, everyone you pass by today. Is the scale of breathing within one species? All animals participate in this exchange of release for continued life. But not without the plants. The plants in their inverse proces...

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$250

every breath: cosmic purpose intensive atlanta

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90-day access

Audre Lorde was in love with this still combusting planet. In addition to all the other separations that Audre Lorde refused, she also refused to accept a binary difference between planets and stars. That means in the Lordean cosmology you are a star living on a star. Everything is changing. Act accordingly. Join us on January 17th for this in person intensive in Atlanta, GA to activate your cosmic destiny.

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$250 or 2 monthly payments of $125

every breath: the cosmic purpose intensive

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90-day access

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Black Feminist Film School

Black Feminist Film School draws from Black feminist legacies to engage filmmaking as a tool for expanded awareness - filmmaking as spiritual practice. In this practice space our multiple perspectives and levels of experience/eldership are a benefit to us all. From introductory content to advanced content we explore the 5 primary areas of filmmaking - Development (Scriptwriting), Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production and Distribution (Screening). We are also planning two virtual production intensives where we do a production entirely within Black feminist context (in our remote locations).

Ready? Spiritual Practice that resonates & reflects YOU!

Structured by what Queer Black Feminism has to teach us, I have created practice spaces for Growth and Transformation.

Mobile Homecoming Trust

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, PhD

I'm Sista Docta Alexis, a Queer Black troublemaker and Black Feminist love evangelist! Sangodare is my primary collaborator. I'm excited for people to get a chance to access generations of love on their own timeline through this practice space.

I have been teaching poetry, creative writing, media literacy and film studies for over 24 years including work with The International Black Youth Summit, Duke University and the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.

Sangodare (J.R. Wallace, MDiv)

I'm Olorisa Sangodare Akinwale. Together Alexis and I draw from our individual and combined skills, gifts and talents. This is the platform we have built for our individual and joint offerings via Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library and Archive!

I have been creating film, media and music for over 23 years. I have been teaching film and media for over eight years including a teaching residency in the Film Department at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

Imagine being uplifted by QPOC congregation

We find healing catharsis and clarity in queer collective spiritual practice; from the resonance of reflection to glimpses inside the mystical.

The many shoulders we stand on have provided us the gift of being grounded in spiritual traditions that used to exclude us as QPOC/LGBTQIA+/SGL spirit beings. Now, we are reclaiming our rightful places as spiritual leaders.

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Watch the Sermons

You can watch the sermons from our monthly services at Northstar Church of the Arts in Durham and other offerings
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Enjoy the services and DIY self-guided discovery and spiritual practice prompts.

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21 Day Black Feminist Breathing Chorus!
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Our first meditation chorus cohort so loved the 21 Day practice that they requested options to sponsor a practice. If you would like to sponsor the 21 Day Black Feminist Breathing Meditation Chorus use the link below.

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