{"product_id":"get-funky-get-swoll-9781625571830","title":"Get Funky, Get Swoll","description":"\u003ci\u003eGet Funky, Get Swoll\u003c\/i\u003e explores, demonstrates, and indicts the multifaceted and multifarious ways white supremacy, white culture, and, in very specific instances white people, have had a profound and tragic impact on the human experience of those people known as Black. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The collection's opening examines intimate racism--the kind that exists between friends and friend groups and lovers; the kind which does not holler or thump or come crashing into the heart but does so quietly, stealthily, inflicting grave harm. The book's latter half comprises a series of love poems to Black people, and specifically to Black women--a Black female muse and the ethereal, transcendental, metaphysical Black Female. These poems serve as a countermeasure to the insidious impact of a society that pushes the simultaneous endeavor of self-hate while offering its own pale flesh as a refuge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGet Funky, Get Swoll\u003c\/i\u003e makes complex once again the so-called Black experience, which is to say, the human experience. Akhim Yuseff Cabéy's collection functions not only as a reminder of the tragic impact of white supremacy on the hearts and minds and souls of Black people, but as a signpost: more danger is headed our way, and we must hold on to the spirit we have left.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625571830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116","brand":"Akhim Yuseff Cab\u0026#195;\u0026#169;y","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52418869756085,"sku":"9781625571830","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fd80b4d8-7381-4107-a583-8789783e3fe2.jpg?v=1775570649","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/get-funky-get-swoll-9781625571830","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}