alexispauline Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a writer, poet, and activist. Same handle on IG. Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize. 2022 NEA Fellow. 2022 Whiting Award. Image @harmeetrehal

Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room
Foluke Taylor
So happy to have @foluketaylor ‘s new book Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room in my hands! I’m honored that Foluke has brought my work into her therapeutic practice and her theoretical work of transforming what black feminist therapy can be!
Paperback, 2023
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
Alice Walker
“When your gift to the people is themselves, they’re bound to accept it sooner or later.” Alice Walker about the work of Zora Neale Hurston as represented in a film treatment by Toni Cade Bambara Gathering Blossoms Under Fire p172-173 💜 Thank you Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd
Out of stock

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Starting now! Excited to talk about Octavia Butler, the Parable of the Sower Opera and @biglovely1 ‘s Parable Path.💜 https://www.strathmore.org/what-s-on/in-the-music-center/octavia-butler-s-parables-a-welcome-and-orientation/
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cane
Jean Toomer
I am so excited to be part of this epic collective of black thinkers including my mentors, kindred and faves creating an oracle deck celebrating the 100th anniversary of Jean Toomer’s CANE! coming soon from @3rdthingpress https://t.co/MICdcLOtkp https://t.co/kwnaPVJboX
Paperback, 2011
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
Our Sister Outsider redefines both sister and outside. 💜 High holy days continue!!!! Audre Lorde Birthday Week!!!!💜💜💜💜 https://t.co/ySIPZqA7Aq
Paperback, 2007
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family
Faith S. Holsaert
This is a book of daughtering. Faith Holsaert shows us intimately what it means to be a daughter of multiple movements, mothers, monsters, and systems of harm. She shows us how mothering brings daughtering back into its queerest, most transformative potential.
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Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life
Destiny Hemphill
@IBJIYONGI The Marrow Theives by Cherie Dimaline and Motherworld by Destiny Hemphill and the Everything is Beautiful catalog of Alma Thomas’s work. Just finished @seminewblack ‘s Suddenly We but I will be going back forever. Also just finished What We Fed to the Manticore by Kollori
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Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals
Aurora Levins Morales
Societies like ours defuse social protest by a combination of repression and co-optation. Deep convictions are repackaged as matters of style. Grants are bestowed and leaders are destroyed. A revolutionary upsurge becomes a career path. -Aurora Levins Morales MEDICINE STORIES
Paperback, 2019
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dark Testament: And Other Poems
Pauli Murray
@mobilehomecomin Sunday Service live at 11am eastern! Pauli Murray Birthday edition. Today’s Oracle from Pauli Murray’s epic poem Dark Testament. Today’s outfit inspired by Dr. Pauli Murray’s work as an educator in Ghana. See you at https://t.co/CrKLGquk13 https://t.co/tfTYSWLvcD
Paperback, 2018
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mind of My Mind
Octavia E. Butler
“Maybe I loved him in self-defense…” Whew! Grateful to be revisiting these deep complexities of consent in Octavia Butler’s Mind of My Mind with my beloveds @biglovely1 and @adriennemaree on @OParables 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 https://t.co/3cB4kzlHq9
Paperback, 2020
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book