The Pauli Murray Center's March book club discussion will be on Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Omisade Burney-Scott will co-host the discussion - Omisade is the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Advocacy for SisterSong, a women of color Reproductive Justice collective, and the creator/host of The Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast.

The LGBTQ Center of Durham is a co-sponsor of this event.

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

We will hold our discussion on Wednesday, March 31st from 6:30 to 7:30 PM on Zoom. To attend, please register in advance: https://zoom.us/.../tJEuf-qqrTwvG9YwwP_NY_wWoUU5v9_uDIqs

We have an official Facebook group for the book club. Join for updates: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pmcbookclub/