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The archive book5/21/2023 ![]() "The second in a trilogy, I’d encourage you to read all of them. "At turns lush and awesome, in ways that make the eyes gleam and the mind crackle with electricity, in ways that devastate and leave the spirit raw with overlain feelings of complicity and responsibility, and loving, always loving, always loving in, between, and across every single word-the beautiful and daring writing of M Archive imperatively continues the constellar work of radical Black feminism’s ongoing project of 'imagining the unimaginable.'" - John Murillo III, Make "Gumbs makes visible the consequences of the colonial Anthropocene that targets those that struggle against white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, and the history of Black feminist refusal." - Macarena Gómez-Barris, Antipode A generous work that challenges dominant views that assume that ancestral speculative work has no place in feminist theory." - Chandra Frank, Feminist Formations "Offers a set of necessary and stimulating interventions. More compendium than chronicle, the writing is poetic, dense, and often solemn with glimmers of dark wit." - Gabrielle Civil, Full Stop "The end of the world is no joke! This text is clearly ambitious. ![]() This is an impressive archive 'written in collaboration with the survivors' and the mythology that Gumbs develops from the artifacts of future black life and memory works to reveal an existence 'on the verge of regenerating the cells that would let us dream deep enough to remember.'” - Publishers Weekly M Archive, the second book in an innovative trilogy that began with Spill, is evidence of her brilliance." - Bitch "Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a literary treasure. Sasha Panaram, New Black Man (In Exile) ![]() And in so doing, it gives us a reason to breathe – independently and collectively – again." " M Archive adds to and extends the critical work being done around breath, breathing, and blackness.
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