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After the End of the World

I love this book. Surely it will be considered "speculative fiction", but it is also americoafropessimist, but also resignedly hopeful. It's rooted in the reality of our precarious positions as a species whose most powerful members are pushing us towards self-annihilation. I appreciate how she write......more

There are books that you read and there are books that read you. That weave in and out of your consciousness and help you to modify new truths. This book does that, but it does something more. It begins with another source and uses that space of searching and telling to tell another set of stories t......more

An impressively original and boundary-rejecting vision. Gumbs blends poetry, mysticism, science fiction, politics, and rigorous theory into a surprisingly accessible collection of texts. She sharply takes on capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while offering acts of resistance and re......more

i loved the afrofuturism and afropessimistic view this book takes on. This was a book that really got my imagination going and how it relates to this current dystopia we’re living through. This work is so original and I haven’t come across anything like it other than Octavia Butler’s writings. Highl......more

This masterpiece is perhaps the most beautiful thing I've read about the intersections of race and the environment. Intersections of humanity and other elements. Touched by this book ❤️......more