the movement advocating for the abolishment of neo/colonial slavery, from Latin: abolere, ‘destroy’

Activism work that supports women’s reproductive rights, including the right to kill, which makes women dangerous (Lewis 2019)

Rendering something poorer in quality by adding another substance, not pure, corrupted

Away from keyboard

Y/our communication with plants and algae happens through breathing oxygen generated by plant life, who breathe in y/our CO₂ exhaust

Covid-19 strain originating in the UK

Belonging to a foreign country, world, planet, or atmosphere, including deep sea life-on-earth

Creating a feeling and experience of isolation and estrangement and transferring ownership of property rights to another person or group (see:
Biopiracy)

Fluid surrounding a foetus, resembles sea water, where from conception, a foetus goes through all stages of a not-necessarily-human evolution

Native American hymn and lament from the Arapaho tribes: ‘Father, have mercy on me / Because I’m dying of thirst / Everything is gone – I have nothing to eat’

From Greek: apokaluptein, ἀποκαλύπτειν, ‘uncover, reveal’

Containing the property or power to ward off d/evil/s, such as the face of the Medusa and her sisters, Gorgons, the evil eye, and many plants and rituals serve as such, invoking protection, from Greek: ἀποτρόπαιος

Covid-19 strain originating in South-Africa

identifying who and what count/s as un/natural, biologising identity politics

attempted propertisation of natural resources through patenting acts, robbing and plundering nature

sexed discrimination, part of the war against women (inspired by Judith Herman)

macrobiotics aim to render y/our bloodstream similar to sea water

a person who can reach nirvana, but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings. Sanskrit: ‘a person whose essence is perfect knowledge’

valuable stolen goods – especially seized during wartime – and a person’s sexed bottom, making booty as spoils of war necessarily include (dis/possession of) the female-body-as-loot

this ancient Buddhist Temple on Java was hidden for 800 years and excavated roughly 200 years ago, the temple visualises the meeting point of Ocean, as the archaic feminine, and Mountain, as the archaic masculine

someone’s butt, alteration and valuation of ‘body’

any form of epistemic violence (Spivak), strategic forgetting and erasure of particular knowledge (systems) for optimised oppression

possible name for y/our current exterminist day and age, where our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability (Haraway 2016)

Community Biodiversity Register, documenting community knowledge in order to protect it as communal intellectual property and defend natural resources from patenting (Shiva 2020)

a thing that is hoped for, but is illusory or impossible to achieve

relating to or inhabiting the underworld, Greek: χθών, Earth

potential name for y/our current day and age, coined by Donna Haraway inspired by her being bitten by the Pimoa Cthulhu spider, yet the role herein of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu remains cancelled, instead of problematised

pandemic creating planetary ecological destruction, ecocide, also the Sixth Extinction

aquatic invertebrates [not having a skeleton] such as JELLYFISH, corals and sea anemones. They typically have a tube- or cup-shaped body with a single opening, ringed with tentacles that bear stinging cells (nematocysts). Also called cnidarian

the opposite of exceptionalist individualism

settler -, exploitation -, surrogate -, internal-, national- and so-called trade colonialism as a contradiction in terms [where ‘trade’ proposes a form of equality], encompasses the illegal occupation of foreign territory, violent oppression, including genocide events and enslavement of indigenous people, extraction of resources and wealth. The effects of this European project are easily recognised today. However, formerly colonised societies generally are not offered any kind of reparations [financial compensation] and the colonial project continues today as neocolonial, extractivist economies have taken hold in former colonies and elsewhere. From this sense, colonisation indeed has never stopped and former colonial (slave) transportation sea routes are still used for moving or extraction human / resources as well as wiring the internet

‘A world compartmentalised, Manichean [centralising a dualistic conflict between light and dark] and petrified, a world of statues: the statue of the general who built the bridge. A world cocksure of itself, crushing with its stoniness the backbones of those scarred with the whip. That is the colonial world. The first thing the colonial subject learns is to remain in his place and not overstep its limits. Hence the dreams of the colonial subject are muscular dreams, dreams of action, dreams of aggressive vitality. I dream I am jumping, swimming, running, and climbing. I dream I burst out laughing, I am leaping across a river and chased by a pack of cars that never catches up with me. During colonisation the colonised subject frees himself night after night between nine in the evening and six in the morning.’ (Fanon 1963, p.15)

black feminist collective from Boston founded in 1974, dedicating their name to Harriet Tubman, who led a campaign that freed more than 750 enslaved people at the Combahee River (South Carolina, USA)

growing awareness and becoming more awake

describes the Indian and Chinese coolie (Dutch: koelie) diaspora, relating indenture migrant workers with slavery. The term is coined by poet Khal Torabully and describes a transcultural process that goes beyond creolisation or méttissage (Glissant), articulating imaginaries and cultures in non-essentialist methods, its imaginary of coolitude is clearly archipelagic, sea-based and a thalassography (1992)

the international summit to negotiate climate crisis resolutions during fall 2021 doesn’t mention the role of gender or gender inequality in climate destruction and keeps native women of colour expressly out of the actual negotiations (UNFCCP)

denoting the turning point of a disease: medical Latin, from Greek: krisis, κρίσις, opinion, ability to assess well, intense manifestation of the symptoms of the disease

deep sea horror monster invented by early twentieth-century American author H.P. Lovecraft, openly racist and antisemitic while he was alive, his writings are subject to a cult following of (games) writers re/creating the Cthulhu Mythos, often without properly problematising Lovecraft’s xenophobic imagination or how this is expressed in his works

para-nationalist money system

bodies of water, air and electricity – flowing in a particular direction

is an enormous task! to resist and dismantle colonial logics that constitute modernisms, decolonisation requires unlearning and making gestures and acts of repair

level of the sea from 1.800m onwards, where sunlight doesn’t enter and there is practically no change in temperature, its climate is the most stable on earth. Full of marine life, deep sea communities largely live off marine snow: food stuffs that fall down from the productive photic zone

Covid-19 strain originating in Brazil

spiritual food, especially good when rolling around in it butt naked!

organised in collaborating power relations, invented to self-serve elites in society: sexed -, raced -, classed -, gendered discrimination/s

the experience, struggle, right and fight to identify y/ourselves (Muñoz 1999)

the violent loss of what belonged to or was the self, also includes wo/men’s souls (Pinkola Estés 1992)

of or during the day

from Greek: related to δελφύς (delphus), ‘womb’

‘has reached [pandemic] proportions that cut across all class and race lines’ (Original quote says ‘epidemic’ instead of pandemic. Radical Women Manifesto Platform 1967)

related to Old English: ‘joy, music’, and a possible holiday of the mind! Dredging up consciousness from unconsciousness. Oneirogenic plants support and enhance the experience of dreaming. The Bodhisattva is the fully awake person who lives to realise the/ir universal dream, for the benefit, enlightenment and relief of suffering for others

to drink a glass of water is to ingest the ghosts of bodies that haunt that water (Neimanis 2012)

falling

feeling of being overwhelmed

discrimination of knowledge systems (not acknowledging certain knowledge systems as such) coined and theorised by Gayatri Spivak

violent extraction of wealth resulting in the (irreversible) depletion of national and natural resources, including deep sea mining, fundamental to neo/colonial, imperialist and multinational economic ideologies

confront something / someone

working towards ending the cruel and murderous treatment of women, including femicide (The Combahee River Collective 1974. In Burn It Down! [BID])

circulation of a rumour or idea

overwhelmed by a form of!!!!!!!! excess

the state of being unsettled

y/our face and the toilet

narrative employed to romanticise the systemic violence of epistemic erasure as (imperialist) oppression (Sokha 2021)

fear of the feminine. Older description/s of same feelings: fear of the future, and: focus on the family

the mythological fountain healing the disease of aging

the Earth personified as a goddess, daughter of Chaos, mother and wife of Ouranos, Heaven or Sky, in greek mythology, Greek: Γαῖα. In cosmogony, Gaea represents material creation and not just the Earth.

Covid-19 strain originating in India

‘A gift can consist of an alienable or inalienable object. In many languages ‘give’ and ‘forgive’ are connected. To give is linked to the present, to forgive a past thing. One can reinforce a request for forgiving with a gift of a precious object. Such gift-giving can be a hidden acknowledgement of a past injustice and approach the concept of restitution.’ (Jos van Beurden, 2.3.1. Gifts to colonial administrators and institutions)

a fierce, frightening, repulsive woman. The ancient Greek mythological gorgons are three sisters who have snakes for hair, while looking into their eyes petrifies their onlooker, literally turning them into stone

to shelter, hide and occupy

theorised the history of traumatic stress as a syndrome common to veterans and sexual abuse survivors, identifying constant fear of death and sexual abuse or rape to (in the same way) dismantle someone’s personality. Herman historicised the erased publication of Freud’s identification of hysteria as caused by sexual abuse, but the psychiatric community would not accept his findings, as it would need to conclude that sexual abuse among women and children were endemic to society (Herman 1992)

to be in the hold, to be transported in the belly of the ship (Hartman), as an enslaved person

a many-headed water snake or sea monster whose response to decapitation is botanical! Also, the largest celestial constellation, from Greek: Ὕδρα, ‘water snake, sea monster’

ecofeminist practice that addresses the watery part of not-necessarily-human/e bodies in response to Donna Haraway’s proposition of ‘staying with the trouble’

plural for hyphenation, tool for disidentification practices linking multiple (dis)identities and linking terms as-we-go

‘I ask you not to let me face the water, for water is the only one who knows what has always been’ (Wang 2021)

encompasses the ways a culture has of perceiving and conceiving the world (Glissant 1928. English translation: 1997)

industrial runoff causes large-scale pollution of rivers, oceans and groundwater, systematically releasing (agricultural) pesticides, solvents, heavy metals and oil spilling into the connected waterbody, which has become the source of a wide range of lethal illnesses including cancers, organ damage and mass extinction events

Every generation confronts the task of choosing its past (Hartman via Yusoff 2018)

usually combined with feminism, acknowledges the combined, overlapping and intersecting itineraries of discrimination/s, most commonly as (violently) raced -, classed -, sexed - and gendered power structures

magnetic field and place where human creation began (Sudo 1992)

the Buddha of Compassion represented with eleven heads (Glossary, Sudo 1992) —not unlike the Hydra

a god, spirit or force of nature in traditional Shinto (Sudo 1992)

a traditional dance that takes the form of a battle (Glissant 1928/1997)

a symbol for the land of the dead, Earth’s open liquid eye at the edge of knowledge, two-way mirror of the soul (The Book of Symbols [TBOS])

are political and anti-imperialist organisations

mythological monster living in Loch Ness, Scotland, since the 6th century CE

such a violent term! To make (someone) convivial with alcohol

‘In answer to the lie of the colonial situation, the colonised subject responds with a lie’ (Fanon 1963, p.14)

a diet that aims to make y/our blood like sea water; vegan or pescatarian way of eating that consists eating wholegrains, beans, sea vegetables, soups and fermented vegetables (among others), used to start remembering past and future

that which is shared by most not-necessarily-human people as conventional and/or normal

an (academic) all-male panel (discussion) (Tythacott 2021)

a free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish, typically having an umbrella-shaped body with stinging tentacles around the edges, and mythological mortal gorgon who has snakes for hair and petrifies those who look her in the eyes

also menstruation, the rise and fall of hormones is governed by the waxing and waning Moon

performing interspecies fantasy and mythological sea creature expression, adding to the top half of the not-necessarily-human/e, a fishtail

is typified by the way s/he escapes identifications: ugly and pretty, old and young, animal and human, neither male nor female, and s/he is terrifying (Cixous 1975)

‘So far, I have let you humans use the Earth as you like. But the Earth belongs to me, and I will get it back once, so that you cannot have it your own way. I will break up mountains and valleys and make a huge flat land. If I see someone greedy even on a piece of land, I will cause earthquakes, heavy rain, and gales and destroy his land completely. I will turn the land upside down and create flat land. Due to a war of fire, the ice around the North and South Poles will crack, which will lead to an axis shift of the Earth with big earthquakes. I will remake the Earth. I will remove the deserts and high mountains, break up the Earth, and make a flat land. Do not relax even if you live on high plateaus or in high mountains. No one knows when the Moon and the Sun can suddenly appear. After warning everyone beforehand, the work of the Moon and the Sun will begin. This foretold story, how seriously do you listen? Fire from heaven, rain of fire, and the oceans will roll up with tsunamis.’ (Sudo 1992)

the violent project of colonial extractivism after the decolonisation wave of Independence movements during the 1950s and 1960s, contemporary slavery and widespread labour exploitation as well as the extraction of wealth and resources continues to this day, in fact, we eat it every day and build up y/our bodies with it

NAM is an anti-imperialism forum organising the Global South. It is the second largest organisation today (after the United Nations) encompassing the involvement of 120 countries in Africa, South-Asia and South America (Russia and Japan belonging to what is in colonial terms the ‘white’ West). The movement started with the Independence movements for decolonisation and the principles identified during the Bandung Conference in Indonesia in 1955. In the decade following the Conference of Bandung, the new generation of socialist Independence leaders were systematically murdered and replaced by military regimes – notably by the CIA – and kept in place for decades.(Also sea, Adam Curtis’s newest documentary series Can’t Get You Out of My Head on YouTube)

placeholder for the human? How to keep on questioning what is, can, could and should be/come properties of the in?human/e?

interconnected waterbody making up over 70% of the earth’s surface and running nearly 11km in some places

everyone possesses oceanic memory! The face of the ocean as visible form/s of y/our unconsciousness, salty amniotic waters running through y/our mnemonic veins (TBOS)

main inspiration throughout numerous mythological deep-sea monsters, is blue blooded, tastes through their suction cups. Two thirds of octopuses’ brains, or rather neurons, are located in their tentacles. Due to their atypical body plan, octopuses are subject to alienation of all sorts, including via the monstrous feminine. Considered deeply intelligent creatures, octopuses die after procreation, therefore, their offspring don’t learn anything from their parents, who don’t provide parental care

Covid-19 strain originating in multiple countries

plants evoking and supporting dream/like states of consciousness, from Greek: óneiros, ὄνειρος, ‘dream’ and gen-, γεν-, Proto-indo-european *ǵenh₁-, ‘to create’

‘doesn’t rely on outward appearances for identification’ (Tastrom 2011)

a social construction aimed to disempower, terrorise and kill women [footnote: men and women in this lexicon are placeholders for their social constructs]

from Gosiute dialect in the endangered Shoshoni language: pimoa, ‘big legs’, this spider is named after Lovecraft’s Cthulhu sea monster and inspired Donna Haraway to name y/our day and age the Chthulucene

the practice of attacking and robbing data

is a name for marine plastic pollution consisting of an estimated 80% plastics including microplastics, floating around and suspended in oceans. Microplastics are found throughout all water bodies, from glaciers to not-necessarily-human/e bodies and deep-sea sediments. The largest single source of pollution is estimated to consist of discarded fishing nets

short for portmanteau, blending the sound and meaning of words or people as couples

having, owning and controlling someone or something, also by demonic spirits

employed for rendering the domestic space and its labour, abuse and social inequalities, invisible

when one person is discriminated the other profits from privilege of that discrimination; can be typified in the same ways as discrimination/s: sexed -, raced -, classed -, gendered privilege

‘also an object’s biography, describes the history of an object in terms of the context in which it was made and who made it, of its use value and exchange value through time, of the ways in which it has passed from the maker to subsequent possessors.’ (Van Beurden, influenced by Kopytoff, Cultural Biography of Things 2017)

can indicate mind, soul and spirit

a soft, wet, shapeless mass

possibility of showing intersectional and interspecies solidarity, fighting for the most preyed upon in y/our interspecies societies!

symbolises a state of sheltering, tears cleansing those who are trapped in emotional blindness, reanimating what felt dark and dead (TBOS)

luxuriant forest, rich in biodiversity, currently under threat by logging and monoculture plantations

sky god dispensing rains. Nearly all the world’s mythologies include reference to a divine flood, wherein the sky deities wipe out worlds before recreation or repopulation in a new age (TBOS)

is a form of terrorism (Radical Women Manifesto Platform 1967)

Javanese mythological female sea monster of the South Sea

as a step in decolonisation and a relatively new term, this is the possible recovery of lost roots and knowledges, tracing matriarchal lineages and their knowledge systems that were erased by colonial and imperialist ideologies

acts and gestures of repair in the shape of financial compensation, for the absence of stolen goods and economic losses in retrospect

returning cultural objects and lost, stolen and booted heritage to the country and people who made them

y/our ability to respond! coined by Karen Barad (according to Barad)

the riverside of Sai; in Buddhist folk teaching, the site is a pathway from this world to the world after death

water with memory

something that adds freshness

(interspecies) person or group of (interspecies) people who show great kindness, reliability and honesty

‘tortures nature to reveal her secret’ (Shaviro 2017)

organ culture that can see in the dark

or marine mucilage, is considered as a similar function to snot in other organisms, a result of imbalance in marine ecosystems, caused by the climate crisis, transports marine diseases

or sea weeds! are a staple in the whole grain-based vegan healing diet of macrobiotics, aimed to cleanse the soul, recuperate memory of past and future, increase symmetry of the body and facial features, and thoroughly ecological

the largest shipwreck or marine disaster to date was the bombing of the Junyo Maru in 1944 in the South Sea, killing approximately 5,620 people. Most of the few hundred people who survived the shipwreck, died during imprisonment while working on the 200km long Pekanbaru railroad, a labour camp, killing more than 80,000 people

place where y/our waterbody meets a piece of land

women or winged creatures who mythically lured sailors to steer their ships onto rocks

contemporary slavery, or human trafficking, is approximated to encompass the enslavement of 40 million people, a quarter of which are children, held captive to do forced labour in the private sector and/or enter forced marriages. Current enslavement of people includes recruiting child soldiers and sex trafficking. Most of the enslaved population are living in and/or coming from Asia (2019)

the underworld realm of the dead that snakes mythically inhabit is also the fecund ground from which new life emerges, a place of healing and form of ancestral spirit (TBOS)

everything that is looted and stolen during wartime

known as the first Western anti-colonial film and video-essay medium. ‘There would be nothing to prevent us from being, together, the inheritors of two pasts if that quality could be recovered in the present. Less remarked, it is prefigured by the only equality denied to no one… that of repression’ (00:29:03–--00:29:14. Marker and Resnais,1953)

often associated with mythic animals like the bull and the ram, which embodied such dynamic energies, these sons of cosmic power became saviours, healers or gods of vegetation, who would die and be resurrected with each new agricultural year (TBOS)

of a boat, sailor or sea creature: left aground on a shore

and struggle some more

failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence

an area of low-lying uncultivated ground where water collects

effort, hard work

the poisonous emissions of y/our technologies have been answered by the anomalous rains and flooding of global warming (TBOS)

also known as tentacular rape, is a pornography genre of people (being coerced into) having sex with octopuses

study of the ocean

also the Roof of the World. After the North and South Poles, this region contains the largest freshwater reserve on the planet, encompassing the Hindu Kush Himalayas Mountain range and the Tibetan Plateau. The Third Pole feeds the ten largest rivers in South-Asia with fresh water, providing in total water to nearly a quarter of the global population

making the art of discussion wavy, watery, oceanic, magnetic, moon-infused and tidal, tidalectics is a poetic tool coined by writer Kamau Braithwaite, to engage with the deep-seated traumatic herstory of overseas enslavement of people during the last 500 years

a powerful surge of feeling

symbolic inclusion of marginalised people

is the violent enslavement of African people, transporting people as goods in often lethal conditions in the cargo holds of ships, in order to be sold in the Americas. Looking at maps showing the ways of transporting enslaved people as human cargo, people are stowed away under the planks below deck, looking like bodies in a mass grave

to pour blood or its components from one (interspecies) person into another

make more more more

the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or the Dutch East-India Company in English, enforced trade relations with the former Dutch East-Indies. As the world’s first multinational company, one wonders what validates the insistence on calling VOC’s aggressive military presence and colonial government ‘trade’. The VOC is the name for exploitation colonialism, illegal occupation, violent oppression and genocide, in a region that is now Indonesia

‘as a demand, is the only revolutionary perspective from a feminist viewpoint and ultimately for the entire working class’ (Federici 1974) and a potential form for universal income

‘the world is warming and we humans are to blame’ (Wang 2021)

making a particular reality seem better or different from what it really is

‘[this] water has been in cycle for MILLIONS OF YEARS, falling to earth, quenching horses, elephants, lizards, dinosaurs, humans. They pissed, they died, their water evaporated and gathered again into clouds to drizzle down AND STORM DOWN into rivers, puddles, aqueducts, and ancient cupped hands’ (CAConrad, Storm SOAKED Bread, soma(tic) ritual)

a sudden occurrence or increase in a feeling or emotion

makes people drunk and able to forget (Fanon 1963)

landscape saturated with water, soils and waterbodies

‘[if] the land is being poisoned, Witchcraft must respond’ (Grey 2013)

‘until we recognise y/our slavery we cannot recognise our struggle against it’ (Federici 1974)

the construction and instillment of fear for things that are different, dissimilar, other, alien and foreign, constructed by and for the benefit of patriarchy / cis-white-male-gaze / imperialism to take a stranglehold

is gender-abolitionist (…) and alienation is the labour of freedom’s construction; nothing should be accepted as fixed, permanent, or ‘given’ – neither material conditions nor social forms (Laboria Cuboniks 2015)

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