Media/ Sample Work

2021 Virtual Sisterhood Celebration 

Hosted by the Council on the Status of Women.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I had the honor, alongside others, to write and deliver a poetic keynote. This poem is titled "Who Invited Normal to the Cookout?" 

| February 22, 2021

NC Live Distinguished Speakers' Series 

Navigating Borderlands, Building Bridges: A Black Feminist Approach to Third Spaces

Synopsis: The abolition work of Harriet Tubman, the seats occupied by Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, Tarana Burke’s #metoo, and even Beyonce at Coachella assert a common thread: navigating borderlands to create new bridges towards freedom. angela gay-audre (they/she) borrows the words of Chicana feminist Cherríe Moraga, who writes it “is less about each one of us and much more about the pending promise inscribed by all of us who believe that revolution - physical and metaphysical at once - is possible (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 2015, xxi).” gay-audre believes revolution is possible. This talk centers a Black feminist lens on the importance of third spaces on the path toward liberation. gay-audre asserts third spaces are critical sites for decolonizing minds, holding sacred space, and acting as bridges for those seeking liberatory politic and/or equitable access to resources. Guided by the Black feminist tradition gay-audre will revisit what has passed as well as call in ancestors and present-day living legends to actively imagine and create the future of third spaces. 

| June 24, 2021

Feedback: "This was an incredible training with universal applications. This would be excellent as an all day, or even half day, training.”