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 metap Book and Mortar Record Store Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs 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. Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Publisher: AK Press Published: 11/17/2020 Pages: 120 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.44lbs Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d ISBN: 9781849353977 About the Author adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism and co-editor of Octavis's Brood.
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Book Title: Undrowned : Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Number of Pages: 120 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: A + K Press Distribution
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Animals / Marine Life, Sociology / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Social Science
Item Weight: 6.7 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Item Width: 5 in
Book Series: Emergent Strategy Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
