M Archive

"Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a brilliant, highly original theorization of the impact of a dystopic reality on black consciousness and black bodies, asking: how will they act as archives of the end of the world as we know it? By articulating black bodies as critical sites of archival knowledge, Gumbs reads them beyond historic notions of catastrophic suffering as racialized subjects." — Alexis De Veaux, author of Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde

“Reading this gift of writing I keep gasping! Is Alexis writing from the bottom of the ocean, or the far off future, or from inside the mind of God-is-change? How does she see everything so clearly? How does she make such incredible connections for us? This writing is generous and genius. It feels like fiction that taps into the deepest vein of sentience, that is also instantly sacred text. Thank you, Alexis, and bless you.” — adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds