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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Dub: Finding Ceremony
The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition
Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel."The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them--communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Ancestors (Boston Review / Forum #16)
Some of today's most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others.It is rare now for people to stay where they were raised, and when we encounter one another--whether in person or, increasingly, online--it is usually in contexts that obscure if not outright hide deta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
by Juan Felipe Herrera • Minal Hajratwala • Inés Hernández-Avila • Barbara Jane Reyes • David Bowles • Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Abigail Carl-Klassen • Adela Najarro • Allen Baros • Barbara Brinson Curiel • Carmen Calatayud • Cecca Austin Ochoa • Cordelia Barrera • César L. De León • D. M. Chávez • Dan Vera • Daniel E. Solís y Martínez • David Hatfield Sparks • Elsie Rivas Gómez • Emmy Pérez • Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez • Ire'Ne Lara Silva • Ire’ne Lara Silva • Jennine Doc Wright • Jo Reyes-Boitel • Joe Jiménez • John Fry • José Antonio Rodríguez • Juan Morales • Karla Cordero • Kim Shuck • Lupe Mendez • Marie Varghese • Melanie Márquez Adams • Michael Wasson • Miguel M. Morales • Monica Palacios • Nadine Saliba • Nia Witherspoon • Nidia Melissa Bautista • Olga García Echeverría • Oswaldo Vargas • Pablo Miguel Martínez • Rachel Mckibbens • Rodney Gomez • Roy G. Guzmán • Sarah A. Chavez • Shauna Osborn • Suzy de Jesus Huerta • T. Sarmina • Tara Betts • Tomas Moniz • Veronica Sandoval • Victor Payan • Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo • Ysabel Y. GonzálezIn homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized, expl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016