Undrowned

- The difficulty of describing this book is, in sense, one of it's selling points: You've never seen anything like it.
- It is an extended, creative nonfiction meditation organized into movements or "waves." Each section centers on a theme, but approaches it obliquely, poetically, making connections, drawing lessons, playfully swimming around points with a mix of wordplay and wisdom.
- The first book in the Emergent Strategy series not by adrienne maree brown, this will build off the success of that series.
- The core audience will be the Black, queer feminist (and allies) readership we have cultivated with the other two books in the Emergent Strategy series: Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy.
- Beyond that, though, there is a wide audience that will no doubt be moved by Gumbs's strategy of looking to the natural world for answers. As the author put it to us: "There is an expansive readership of people that include folks who live near the shore and wonder about the whale bones they found, people lobbying at the UN about deep ocean ecology and what it takes to protect it, people who can't keep from crying when the read the daily news, people who feel cut off from nature, people who prioritize nature in their lives, people who are anxious about climate crisis, people who take long social media fasts and want peace, people who thought their practice of looking at pictures of marine mammals was completely separate from their economic justice work."