Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press
When you open up this close to the edge, land holds you and water moves through you. And what you thought was closed off to you opens up like possibility. And the danger you thought would open up and swallow you and everyone you love instead reclarifies who you are, updates your dreams and waits to wake you with new purpose.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press Here, at the shoreline, the sky kisses the land and the horizon at the same time. Sometimes I strain to see the invisible, this air that holds me either way. But what a perfect place to study the unbound: here at the shoreline where you test my limits daily.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press What is our bravest breathing? What is our unapologetic action towards self-determination?
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press I love the parts of you that no one thinks are particularly special. I love the basic you of you unmarketable and everyday. I love to be around you because the round around you thrills me. And let's get together again soon. A whole bunch of us. I love you more than press conferences can say. Breach when you want to.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press I wonder what our sensitive edges have to teach us. What do our mortality and openness mean to the ecology we could surrender to together?
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