gossypiin

By Ra Malika Imhotep

• DEBUT AUTHOR gossypiin is the first book by emerging Black feminist writer, Doctoral candidate, and cultural worker Ra Malika Imhotep
• RECLAIMING THE CULTURAL PRACTICE OF GOSSIP, gossypiin puts Black feminist writers and storytellers into a lively conversation with a Black queer trickster figure. It is an archive, an oral history, and a source text for Black feminists being
• BLACK FEMINIST LENS highlights the Black experience, femininity, interiority, and ownership of identity and body
• POWERFUL, RAW LANGUAGE pulls punches that haunt readers
• IDENTITY POLITICS gossypiin explores the relationship between Black non-binary/agender femininities and Black womanhood
  
• FOR FANS OF Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781636280264

Ra Malika Imhotep

Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia. As a scholar and cultural worker, Ra Malika is invested in exploring relationships between queer articulations of Black femininity, Southern vernacular culture, and the performance of labor. As a steward of Black Studies and Black feminist thought, Ra Malika dreams, organizes, and facilitates spaces of critical reflection and embodied spiritual-political education. Ra Malika resides in Oakland, California.

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