(Father's Day Edition)
The intensive will include:
1 day of programming (4hrs)
1 Catered Meal by Chef Amelia
4 hours of facilitation by Sista Docta Alexis and
Infinite possibility for deepening your writing and relationships.
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presented by Sangodare for Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library and Archive
an in-person BIPOC Writing Workshop
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Join us for Daughter Rhymes With…a series of reflective writing intensives in Spring 2024. Since 2016 Alexis has emphasized that daughtering, like mothering is labor that can exist beyond gender binaries and this is a gender-inclusive space for BIPOC. This is a daughtering journey where we seek to discover the right questions for ourselves, for our now; like what happens when we search for (our mother’s) gardens and keep finding graves? And what would a visionary daughter look like where the abundance of our daughtering labor, the assumptions constructing the labor of daughtering, could be transformed into revolutionary potential that provokes freedom right at the site where bondage is supposed to be reproduced.
Join us in the living room!
Alexis’s in-person living room poetry and writing facilitation has transformed many lives in Durham. Some of the young children that attended have finished college now and I can see the fruit. But since 2018 Alexis has offered most of her workshops online to a growing community around the world. During COVID she shut down in-person workshops completely. But I want it to begin again.
The deal is: Alexis is happy to offer writing workshops and facilitation if it can be easier, more beneficial and more impactful than the online writing intensives she offers AND when all she has to do is show up instead of building and holding the space, and hosting AND facilitating. This is the standard because this is what will allow it to be sustainable. And it needs to be sustainable, especially while she continues to write books on books on books AND tour with her forthcoming biography of Audre Lorde. We are ready.
We get to be a team of hosts and participants. And as we participants deepen OUR commitment, Alexis can deepen HER investment in us. So, I’m taking it on. I get to invite some of you who seem to be deeply committed to your own reflective writing practice AND Alexis’s facilitation and who are BIPOC, to register for one or both of our reflective writing intensives/rituals of preparation and liberation taking place May 4-5, 2024 (the weekend before Mother’s Day weekend) and June 8-9 (the weekend before Father’s Day weekend) in Durham, NC.
Will you join us?
I think of this as a once a year opportunity for each of us to deepen our own writing and creative practice; like an annual physical or spring cleaning. After it goes well, we can determine how often we can offer them, subsequently, you can determine how often you want to participate.
BONUS: On May 3rd and June 7th the Fridays before the intensives begin, I’m inviting participants that are interested to sign up for one out of four 1-on-1 sessions with Alexis. Intensive participants will also have the opportunity to schedule for virtual one-on-ones for after the weekend is over.
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Email: mobilehomecoming@gmail.com
EMAIL SUBJECT : Daughtering Intensive
This reflective writing intensive will be hosted by me (Sangodare) and my team and facilitated by Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs. We are centering BIPOC individuals only. If you are not BIPOC, there will be other opportunities forthcoming. .
Early Registration is $200 before May 30, 2024.
Registration is $250 per person starting June 1, 2024.