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Undrowned
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals | Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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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 Gumbss 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.
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BookedBeyondMeasure
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The beautiful offerings and the lessons that are shared by the author go hand in hand as she shares exactly what we can learn from the marine mammals perspective is a cause for pause and apply. I could see myself throughout the book. I recommend this book because it challenges us to see the way that marine mammals are nudging us to join together and learn from and with it.

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MegCaldwell
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Essential reading.

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KelsiTaylor
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“Breathing in unbreathable circumstances is what we do every day in the chokehold of racial gendered ableist capitalism. We are still undrowing… may we evolve.”
I genuinely can‘t imagine any book in my library getting as much love as this book is going to get. Every single section left me feeling empty and whole all at once. I‘m so excited to do all the activities at the end.
A thousand stars, all the picks