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Undrowned

Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
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Description

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs's Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of "vision" and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

Product Details

PublisherAK Press
Publish DateNovember 17, 2020
Pages120
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781849353977
Dimensions7.9 X 5.0 X 0.8 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony; coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines; and the founder of Brilliance Remastered, an online network and series of retreats and online intensives serving community accountable intellectuals and artists.

adrienne maree brown is editor of the Emergent Strategy Series and co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements.

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