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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Alexis Pauline Gumbs's "BlueBellow."

This is one of six stories we're presenting this week as part of our Resistance special issue. Keep checking back for the rest.



apg-headshot Alexis Pauline Gumbs lives in Durham, North Carolina where she is building a retreat center and intentional community one living and tiny house at a time with the Mobile Homecoming project (mobilehomecoming.org). Alexis is also the provost of a small Black Feminist University called Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. Alexis is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, and was included in Best Experimental Writing in 2015. Find out more at alexispauline.com.
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