Citizen.Coping: Firelei Báez created this work based on Drexciya mythology.

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

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