Alexis Pauline Gumbs Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024 presents chapters that resonate like a chorus, inviting readers to embrace Audre Lorde's fierce love, a force that shaped the world. Lorde was a survivor of various injustices, including childhood disability, the suicide of her best friend, and the atomic age. As a college activist against nuclear arms and a mother, she recognized poetry's power to help her children navigate a racist society. Ultimately, as a cancer survivor, she understood the internal battles within her body mirrored the broader struggles against oppression. This compelling account of Lorde's life reveals that for her, survival transcended mere endurance; it was about thriving on a transforming planet. Her commitment to justice was deeply intertwined with her connection to the natural world, viewing ecological imagery not just as metaphors but as essential guides for living fully as a Black feminist lesbian warrior poet. In "Survival Is a Promise," Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to delve into Lorde's manuscript archives, highlights the enduring essence of Audre Lorde, illustrating her life and work as a cosmic force that embodies the potential for harmonious existence on Earth.

VINTAGE CLASSICS//WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women's weird fiction. 'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian 'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah Waters In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women's suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake? The VINTAGE CLASSICS//WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, deviant, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

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 Gumbs’s 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.