A Black feminist oceanographic would expect the apocalypse, prepare for its coming—its inevitability a promise and the tools of the study, that is the practice, that would make living possible. As Denise Ferreira da Silva says, “Toward the end of the World produced by the tools of reason, the Black Feminist Poet peers beyond the horizon of thought, where historicity (temporality/interiority), framed by the tools of universal reason, cannot but yield violence.”

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Home is Where You Queer Your Heart

Tourmaline’s experimental film Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones enacts Black feminist oceanographics through the arc of Black trans resilience and generational nurturance floating above the oceans that hold the remnants of so many apocalypses. Named for the Lucille Clifton poem of the same name, the film explores geographies of violence and erasure along with the capacities for Black trans thriving in Manhattan. In the film, the spirit of water…