All posts by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Clarity (On Clarence Thomas and the Worth of Black Life)
Yesterday, my dad sent me an article from Slate Magazine about a Supreme Court decision written by Clarence Thomas that effectively argued that a black man,...
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What to Do When God Hates You: A Lordeian Intervention in the Face of the Westboro Case
Last week the United States Supreme Court voted eight to one in favor of a definition of free speech that includes hate speech on what...
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"If You Scared Just Say It": Black and Queer with Nothing to Prove- A Preview of Shirlette and the Dynamite Brothers
Play the song before it plays you. Turn it on before game recognizes game. Touch the wound inside before it heals. This is the...
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Mississippi "Odd" (Damn): Black Feminism is Unbelievable
“It just sounds really odd. You know?” This is what a white male police officer said to me several times after he separated my partner...
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The Zen of Young Money: Being Present to the Genius of Black Youth
I fly with the stars in the skies, I am no longer trying to survive, I believe that life is a prize, But to live...
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Mothering Ourselves Manifests
Lavender water, feather boas, dance breaks and booty shakes. Split pea soup and togetherness tasted. Queerness affirmed, fear and shame released, plants watered, seeds planted,...
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Envisioning the Village We Deserve: Queer Kwanzaa
What if this was the village? Not the fantasy patriarchal village that black cultural nationalists use to construct false nostalgia. Not the village that Hilary...