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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

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Book Cover for: Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room, Foluke Taylor

Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room

Foluke Taylor
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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
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Book Cover for: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

Alice Walker
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“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

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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
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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
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Book Cover for: Cane, Jean Toomer

Cane

Jean Toomer
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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
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Book Cover for: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde
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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
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Book Cover for: Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family, Faith S. Holsaert

Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family

Faith S. Holsaert
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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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Book Cover for: Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life, Destiny Hemphill

Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life

Destiny Hemphill
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@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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Book Cover for: Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, Aurora Levins Morales

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals

Aurora Levins Morales
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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
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Book Cover for: Dark Testament: And Other Poems, Pauli Murray

Dark Testament: And Other Poems

Pauli Murray
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@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
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Book Cover for: Mind of My Mind, Octavia E. Butler

Mind of My Mind

Octavia E. Butler
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“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
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