Multitudes and a Black Sense of Place and Movement: A Review of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
by Sasha Panaram | @SashaPanaram | NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Written by a self-avowed queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, Spill
reads like a love letter or an ode to Black women and girls – past,
present, and future – seeking relief or more aptly, freedom from
oppressive structures that perpetuate racism and sexism. Indebted to the
inimitable Hortense Spillers and her work in Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture,
Gumbs demonstrates what happens when you stop writing about a theorist
but instead write with them, through them, for them and the visionary
worlds they create. According to her, “[t]he difference between about and with has to do with intimacy, conspiracy; maybe we can call that love.”
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