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A review by lilcookie
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
5.0
"I don't know. What I do know is water. And how it rises to the surface when I think of you. Water and how it floods me when I know. Water and what it means and what it could do and how we need it. In a world on fire where we are called to grow." - slow down, p. 44
Ripping directly from my tweet about this book ---> My love for Alexis Pauline Gumbs' work already ran deep, but reading Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals was so soothing for this manatee-loving, water-enjoying, Cancer of a person. I appreciated the tidbits I learned about marine mammals other than manatees and how Gumbs weaved what we know and don't know about their lives into these meditations. The centering of Blackness was also refreshing and affirming. I took my time with this book and recommend doing the same if you read it. Taking a meditation and sitting with it longer made me dive more deeply into what she was saying, as well as what was resonating at the time and what felt like words. Gumbs also have a list of solo and group activities based on each meditations and I'm trying to be slow in doing each of them as well. Words cannot express how much I enjoyed this reading experience and how many times I highlighted two words or a paragraph because of how I felt reading them. Highly recommend!
Ripping directly from my tweet about this book ---> My love for Alexis Pauline Gumbs' work already ran deep, but reading Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals was so soothing for this manatee-loving, water-enjoying, Cancer of a person. I appreciated the tidbits I learned about marine mammals other than manatees and how Gumbs weaved what we know and don't know about their lives into these meditations. The centering of Blackness was also refreshing and affirming. I took my time with this book and recommend doing the same if you read it. Taking a meditation and sitting with it longer made me dive more deeply into what she was saying, as well as what was resonating at the time and what felt like words. Gumbs also have a list of solo and group activities based on each meditations and I'm trying to be slow in doing each of them as well. Words cannot express how much I enjoyed this reading experience and how many times I highlighted two words or a paragraph because of how I felt reading them. Highly recommend!