Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Ms. Satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6 by Alexis Pauline Gumbs en-us 2023-05-13 18:53:13 UTC 2023-05-31 01:24:09 UTC hello@padlet.com "It is dangerous to be discovered." (p. 16) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589700130 "Once upon a time there was a giant sea mammal... hydrodamalis gigas swimming large and luxe, at least three times bigger than the contemporary manatee. Within twenty-seven years, the the entire species was extinct, killed on thousands of European voyages for fur and sealskin." (p. 16)

"Oh you rough mermaid, what are you teaching us about breath?" (p. 16)

"What can I do to honor you, now that it is too late?" (p. 17)]]> 2023-05-13 19:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589700130 "Word is, Māori meteorologists have been studying these dolphins for centuries to gain insights about the weather." (p. 19) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589707097 "I am amazed by how much listening can do. How quickly it becomes less important to be seen, to leap, to show. And those who study river dolphins know it too. Don't bother looking for these teachers who will rarely jump or splash. You have to listen for them, try to hear them breathe." (p. 19)]]> 2023-05-13 19:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589707097 "The mother Weddell seal will push her baby into the water against her will." (p. 23) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589710379 "Am I the only one here in a lesson, a coughing sputtering thrash, a struggle to stay who I thought I was, ignorant to what evolution has already written inside me?" (p. 23)

"The tough love of the Weddell seal mother teaches a lesson about the difference between what is cute and what is necessary. What has been and what could be. And I am grateful for all of my mothers... who would shock me into knowing my capacity, trust my lungs more than I thought I could. To breathe in ways I haven't breathed before." (p. 23)]]> 2023-05-13 19:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589710379 "Yesterday I learned that the breathing of whales is as crucial to our own breathing and the carbon cycle of the planet as are the forests of the world." (p. 24) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589716633 "And now we are here to notice the miracle that was there the entire time... Your breathing. It is your breathing that we need." (p. 27)]]> 2023-05-13 20:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589716633 "This is my prayer. May anyone who seeks to mention you be called to learn the language of those who first loved you." satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589719773 "...the only dolphin--and I believe, the only marine mammal at all--who has managed to keep her Indigenous given name lives in the Amazon. Tuxuci, named in the Tupi language, has kept her name through all this colonization... It's a miracle. We say her name." (p. 30)

"I love you impossible dolphin, quietest in the river, breathing close to the surface. I'm grateful for what you remember even if you never say." (p. 30)]]> 2023-05-13 20:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589719773 "I think of Debbie Africa, who gave birth secretly in prison, how the other women prisoners used sounds to shield her birth process." (p. 31) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589724101 "Remember this feeling, there is something called love. I would say, remember there is something called freedom, even if you can't see it." (p. 32)]]> 2023-05-13 20:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589724101 "How can we navigate oppressive environments with core practices that build community, resistance, and more loving ways of living?" (p. 43) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589758220 "I am so grateful for the loving community of divine swimmers who have transformed my tissue by doing their work... Out here in the ocean we have our breathing and our practice. We have each other if we choose each other." (p. 45)]]> 2023-05-13 22:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589758220 "M. NourbeSe Philip taught me that water holds sound, that it can reverberate on and on and keep on calling us." (p. 48) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589760780 "And so maybe the calls of the great blue whales who filled the whole ocean... are still blessing our water selves now." (p. 48-49)]]> 2023-05-13 22:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589760780 "...the dolphins are educating us on how to squad, or pod up." (p. 51) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589762747 "Knowing who they're with helps them know where they're at and where they want to be." (p. 53)]]> 2023-05-13 22:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589762747 "When I can't see the shore I'm here timing my breath to yours. Knowing collectively we can leap, we can dive, we can practice our faith in each other." (p. 53) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589763743 "What would it mean to go deep with each other? What are the scales of intimacy and the actual practices that would teach us how to care for each other beyond obligation or imaginary duties." (p. 56)]]> 2023-05-13 22:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589763743 "I wonder why we sometimes congregate with those who have been hurt in ways that look similar to how we have been hurt." (p. 62) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589807373 "I wonder sometimes about what keeps us close, in a hurting world shaped by intimate violence. In a world that cuts systemically and deep." (p. 62)

"And our kinship is the kind of salve that heals whole oceans. And love is where I know and do not know you. And love is where we began and where we begin." (p. 63)]]> 2023-05-14 02:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589807373 "I know about hiding. I know about creating an opaque image unattenuated by grief, insecurity, and shame." (p. 64) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589808821 "What if my swimming unseen sacrifices the wisdom that would awaken within you if you saw?" (p. 64)

"Can I trust you to love me with spots?" (p. 64)]]> 2023-05-14 02:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589808821 "What could it mean to be present with each other across time and space and difference?" (p. 67) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589815405 "She called on Black women in the US to relate to the struggle of SWAPO (the South West African People's Organization) as a lesson on the complexity of liberation in our own lives." (p. 70)]]> 2023-05-14 02:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589815405 "...what happens when we shift our behavior beyond the characteristics most palatable to predatory "allies"?" (p. 71) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589817444 "What happens when we value our mass impact as much or more than our unique and haunting songs? And after we finish proving we are smart and capable of feeling to those who somehow think that it is wise to boil the world, what then?" (p. 71)]]> 2023-05-14 02:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589817444 "What is our bravest breathing? What is our unapologetic action towards self-determination?" (p. 73) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589845226 "Sometimes you do have to make your own whirlpool, redirect the waters, initiate a spiral of momentum that can displace whole governments." (p. 79)]]> 2023-05-14 04:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589845226 "She will show you how it feels to be hunted, an opportunity if you can take it, to unlearn your predatory assumptions." (p. 77) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589846352 "I know our reparations will come from your leadership. Your wounds and their wisdom. Your knowledge of teeth. Your brave associations. Do you hear me here screaming beside you? Stay close." (p. 76)]]> 2023-05-14 04:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589846352 "...sometimes I have to vocalize my limits and so do you." (p. 85) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589849451 "South American sea lions fight each other sometimes, but only for fifteen seconds." (p. 84)

"They shift, recalibrate, and let it go in fifteen seconds or less. Could we get there?" (p. 85)]]> 2023-05-14 04:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589849451 "How would we spend our time if we realized that the conflicts we are experiencing now urgently demand that we create a loving world as soon as possible?" (p. 83) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589850754 "...the harms closest to home are both forcing and teaching us to evolve." (p. 83)]]> 2023-05-14 05:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2589850754 "How can we discern the differences between generative boundaries and destructive borders?" (p. 87) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609332680 "As former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith said on her daily poetry podcast The Slowdown, "All animals allowed to live free and wild protect something holy in the world."" (p. 88)]]> 2023-05-30 16:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609332680 "What are the contours of your captivity? Does it offer something to your own torment to know you are not alone in your tiredness?" (p. 89) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609334981 "...I celebrate your right to evade and avoid me." (p. 92)]]> 2023-05-30 16:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609334981 "It makes me think about who benefited all this time from the conspiracy to pretend I didn't exist." (p. 98) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609342777 "I am still unlearning the coping mechanisms I created when I thought I was impossible within myself." (p. 99)]]> 2023-05-30 16:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609342777 "What if I know you by the movements I can sense in you through goosebumps, the way my hair stands up and greets you, or calms down?" (p. 97) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609348867 "...what if I remembered that my living depends on knowing what is what here in the dirt that I can't see through?" (p. 97)]]> 2023-05-30 16:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609348867 "Maybe you know something about what it means to bear the constant wounding of a system that says it's about something else entirely." (p. 103) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609354570 "I mourn the scars you will not notice until you have a reason to grow." (p. 104)

"...you don't have to save the whales but at least take a look at the ropes." (p. 104)]]> 2023-05-30 16:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609354570 "I know what it's like to be sick of systemic oppression and its cycles of extraction." (p. 105) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609358850 "I am writing this in solidarity with with the Greek activists who are currently using music and community education to raise awareness and stop off-shore speculation drilling." (p. 105)]]> 2023-05-30 16:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609358850 "What does it look like to be intolerant of colonialism?" (p. 115) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609363465 "...what recovery is possible if the colonial force actually shuts down?" (p. 115)]]> 2023-05-30 16:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609363465 "All my love to the queers claiming the ocean on land... We prioritize each other over the gravity of socially enforced narratives, laws, and tax structures." (p. 117) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609373421 "Out in the ocean, it is not considered queer for bottlenose dolphins assigned male by scientists to live in bonded pairs for decades, whole lifetimes. It is common. It is not considered queer for groups of bottlenose dolphins that scientists call "related females" to travel the whole world together for always. It is common." (p. 116-117)]]> 2023-05-30 16:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609373421 "What it would take to tune in with our environment enough to be in flow with the Earth instead of in struggle against it." (p. 121) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609378757 "I am learning to trust myself here at the shoreline." (p. 122)]]> 2023-05-30 16:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609378757 "I want to tune my movement to where the warmth is, but instead I struggle, treading water on a path I made up in my mind based on bad information. And if I had trusted you, I would have learned to trust myself." (p. 125) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609383989 "We can learn to let go or you will let go for us." (p. 126)]]> 2023-05-30 16:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609383989 "How do we stay deep when distracting distractions distract us (like racists being racist for racist reasons)?" (p. 129) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609387870 "How do you keep your swim bladder level right so you don't float out of school formation?" (p. 129)]]> 2023-05-30 17:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609387870 "Once upon a time, there was whiteness. It will soon be a memory." (p. 137) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609391165 "Though we are hunted for exactly what makes us strong, may we always be embraced in the words of the Lorde." (p. 132)]]> 2023-05-30 17:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609391165 "What has the Amazonian manatee learned in all this time?" (p. 143) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609398746 "They say she don't study day or night, just water and where is it, and how much of it is there and what is it nurturing, what now grows." (p. 144)]]> 2023-05-30 17:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609398746 "What if we could release ourselves from an internalized time clock and remember that slow is efficient, slow is effective, slow is beautiful?" (p. 141) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609403777 "What will you learn? Patience and diligence, when to stand, how to rearrange your life when conditions change? That would be useful."]]> 2023-05-30 17:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609403777 "...the urgency of rest, the necessity of regeneration, and the depth rest reveals and allows." (p. 147) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609411547 "...rest is the only way to be renewed." (p. 149)]]> 2023-05-30 17:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609411547 "Who here has not been mothered by someone genetically and socially distant from your birth situation, at some necessary time?" (p. 162) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609420018 "And if you have ever shared something, taught someone, shared responsibility for someone's wellness for even a part of their journey, how would you measure what you gained from that potentially "costly behavior?" We call it love. (p. 163)]]> 2023-05-30 17:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609420018 "Maybe I have to nurture something more visceral than sale or security. Maybe I have to clarify my values." (p. 158) satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609427084 "How do I cultivate it, what I actually want, which is to be more than attractive, more than useful, because beauty and skill are deadly in the time of extraction? But I also don't want to be expendable to you. Is there any way that I don't lose? (p. 158)]]> 2023-05-30 17:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609427084 satterfield https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609429514 Gumbs, A. P. (2020). Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. AK Press. ]]> 2023-05-30 17:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/satterfield/9w7x2dfapjz0d2g6/wish/2609429514