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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and Dub: Finding Ceremony. She is one of the guest editors of Boston Review’s second anthology from its Arts in Society project, Ancestors.  

Articles

Kemi Alabi’s Against Heaven answers generations of spiritual violence and threatened damnation with reclamation, repopulation, and a redefinition of heaven.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

If many marine mammals are on the verge of extinction, it is not for lack of environmental activism, but because we are entangled in a global financial system that it does not seem possible to transform.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

In our new book, some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. 

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Adam McGee, Ed Pavlić, Ivelisse Rodriguez

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