Undrowned. Lezioni di femminismo nero dai mammiferi marini

I finished reading Undrowned and it was phenomenal. Undrowned is a Black feminist perspective on what marine mammals have taught the author. Throughout the book connections are made to the atrocity of enslavement via the space of the Middle Passage (Atlantic Ocean) and the normalized logic of coloni Leggi tutto

Undrowned is an intriguing title. Alexis Gumbs has a wonderfully deep knowledge of sea mammals, and this book is meant to be anthropomorphic; how those mammals duplicate or inspire human equivalent activities. How we can or maybe even should see ourselves in the activities of sea mammals. It doesn’t Leggi tutto

My immediate impression upon beginning to read Alexis Pauling Gumbs', " Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals ," was that I could tell that the author is a poet. I have read a lot of books which focus on the intersections or overlaps with human experiences and that of other animals. Mo Leggi tutto

Okay, so many other reviewers have talked about how beautiful this book is, but why has no one talked about how funny it is? The way Alexis spoofs the inspirational style of science communication and white feminism is so, so funny! She'll begin with a science fact that slowly morphs and twists (like Leggi tutto

Have you ever fallen in love with a writer's prose like a coup de foudre ? When I heard Alexis Pauline Gumbs read an excerpt of her work at the American Studies Association conference a few years ago, I was awestruck. When I heard that she was coming out with a book of Black feminist reflections, it Leggi tutto

I wanted to like this book. I wanted to get it. However, this book is probably going to be the lowest-rated for me of the year. The writing itself was beautiful, but I couldn't get beyond the amount that Gumbs romanticized nature to serve her philosophy instead of the other way around. This was not

"What if we could release ourselves from an internalized time clock and remember that slow is efficient, slow is effective, slow is beautiful?"