“A Guide to Going Deep” (Copy)

A reading from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

Read by Melanie Winston

Alexis Pauline Gumbs', Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals is an illustrative guidebook to getting it “right” in that it is a meditative journey through the wisdom of marine mammals helping us toward understanding that from our deepest humanity, we cannot get it “wrong”.

As part of the Emergent Strategy Series this book has been a tool to which I re-visit each time I return to the deep. In this particular read, Gumbs guides us in the voice (and poetry) of the Sperm Whale and their unmatched ability to dive the depths of the sea in one a single breath.

If you enjoy this reading, you can purchase 'Undrowned', more from the emergent strategy series, and many other titles from AK Press, online here (linked).

Pages 127 - 129. 2020 AK Press (Chico, Edinburgh) edition.