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“We Need Your Freedom”: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

Black queer histories—those that index the forms of social life that have flourished in the shadows created by state-sponsored violence,

We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

During the Democratic primaries, I preferred Bernie Sanders to Hillary R. Clinton but could never really “feel the Bern.” Sanders’