Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity Folklore at once raw and achingly

at once raw and achingly beautiful" (NPR)

like the fact that her father may be having an affair

And then she partnered the apostate Southern priest Mother Disaine on the most daring

and luminously liquid

Gordon examines the religious tropes available to early modern subjects for imagining how gender could change

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity Folklore at once raw and achinglyIn Spill, self described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive practice of relating to the words of Black feminist