Citizen.Coping: The merfolk of African descent in "The Deep" somehow developed the ability to breathe underwater and were rescued and cared for my whales also considered to be ancestors and elders. They designate one person to bear all the memories and trauma for the entire society, but it proves to be too much.

In the early 1990s, Drexciya, a Detroit-based techno duo imagined an underwater kingdom populated by the children of pregnant women thrown overboard or jumped voluntarily into the ocean. Drexciya’s founding myth inspired Daveed Diggs' band clippng. to write "The Deep" youtu.be/yybfqEfuxPc?...

Using frameworks of Black/African Science Fiction my judgment imagines the sea and its inhabitants addressing a petition against humanity for what it has thrown into the waters." Now available for pre-order. www.routledge.com/The-Anthropo...

The Deepyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by Sub Pop RecordsThe Deep · clipping.The Deep℗ 2017 Sub Pop RecordsReleased on: 2017-08-18Producer: ClippingMusic Publisher: SUB POP PU...

And the song created by Daveed (Hamilton) Diggs inspired Rivers Solomon to write the novel "The Deep" about an underwater civilization of beings descended from the enfants of women thrown overboard or who jumped during Middle Passage of Transatlantic Slave Route. www.stabroeknews.com/2021/02/14/s...

Rivers Solomon’s The Deep is fanfiction as commentary on history and transgenerational trauma - St...www.stabroeknews.com By Nikita Blair When I saw the cover of The Deep by Rivers Solomon, my mind immediately bounced back to the 2013 Animal Planet docufiction Mermaids: The

The merfolk of African descent in "The Deep" somehow developed the ability to breathe underwater and were rescued and cared for my whales also considered to be ancestors and elders. They designate one person to bear all the memories and trauma for the entire society, but it proves to be too much.

Firelei Báez created this work based on Drexciya mythology.

Drexciyans swam from their mothers' wombs, began to breathe seawater, and established their underwater community. "To psychologically inhabit a femme space is a transformative gesture. It is a radical positioning that could enable a different way of organizing space and bodies..." - Firelei Báez

This is so lovely. Thank you for sharing. I am going to get myself a copy of the book. I just listened to the track you shared!!!!

And if you prefer audiobooks, Daveed Diggs created the score and narrated "The Deep". It's phenomenal! Also had to praise the brilliant book-length poem Zong! that poet-lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip wrote entirely using words from the Gregson vs. Gilbert case. www.nourbese.com/poetry/zong-3/

Zong! | M. NourbeSe Philipwww.nourbese.com

I knew Zong! But I didn’t know ‘The Deep’ so thank you for this.

NourbeSe's book is definitely brilliant! I will take a look at the audiobook. Thanks so much.

Cool!

Awesome! Similar theme with "Drogas Wave," by Lupe Fiasco.

So many scholars and artists of all kinds have been inspired by the world that Drexciya through the years. Likely Lupe Fiasco, as well. There's an exhibit at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art called "From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson" www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

“From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” Openswww.si.edu “From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” will be on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art starting Saturday, April 29. Known for the deftness with whi...

Wowowowow. This whole sequence of influences and ancestry!

And the single, “The Deep” was nominated for the 2018 Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). After that, the novel based on song was commissioned. In 2019 that novel written by Rivers Solomon was released, along with a trio of songs by clipping. that further expand upon its world.

How Rivers Solomon turned award-winning Afrofuturist song The Deep into a bookwww.theverge.com A new book from Better Worlds author Rivers Solomon.

There will be some catching up done by this scribe.

Another artist, Firelei Báez, createda work inspired by Drexciya bsky.app/profile/prop...

Immersive installation inspired by the Drexciya mythology by NYC-based artist Firelei Báez. It includes lush foliage and paintings of the exiled Haitian Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid (1778-1851) and her daughters. A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways), 2019 Firelei Báez

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