Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press
Choreographic presence, circumpolar hold, deep listening, coordination. Call back the school that fear untaught me. Give me the heartbeat I remember. Call it love.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press We can cultivate practices for finding each other in a shifting world. We can each create an intentional approach to what we take in and put out.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press What if it is the world being the world that makes the sky the sky? What if the sky rushed in all directions to meet us here, connect us to everywhere? What if the ocean has my back? Could I trust that?
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press Remember this feeling, there is something called love. I would say remember, there is something called freedom, even if you can't see it.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press When we forgive ourselves for shredding what could never even hurt us. When we evolve in our assignment of brave guardian vulnerability. We have wondered at the sharpness of teeth, glorified the extremes of alienation. We have fetishized exactly what we fear. And now we are here to notice the miracle that was there the entire time.
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