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thoughts / notes / feels / findings from my studies. driven by my quest to 're-member (my) water.' i am seeking to understand bodies of water -- the ocean & rivers -- as unruly archives of dis(re)membered histories. at the heart of my studies is an investigation of the río grande/bravo and the chamizal dispute.

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“When a wound is healed, memory inflicts a new one.”

— Ibrahim Nagi, from “Farewell”, translated from the Arabic by Sayed Gouda  (via finita–la–commedia)

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Light in the dark, page 110

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The length of one’s shadow

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‘Ship of Horror’: Discovery of the Last Slave Ship to America Brings New Hope to an Old Community

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If he fails to drive the English away, she had threatened, “I shall not rest quiet.”

-The National Uncanny, p. 2

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“The woman is doubly in shadow”

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Birds on the moon - solar storms p 124

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I am motivated...by the belief that it is only through a critique of where I come from that the act of witnessing and the testimony I offer can become a decolonizing act.

Gloria Bird

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“‘Vente Azucena, no te quedes,’ and i wanting to assure her that I’m not staying with the river spirits, repeat as if chanting, “ay voy, ay voy, ay voy’ as we cross the river, going and coming.”

— Canícula, Norma Cantú

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From Canícula by Norma Cantu

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There almost all the women gave birth.

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I swear to you all, by my mother's milk,/by the stars that shall fly from tonight's furnance,/that I loved them, my children, my wife, my home; I loved them as poets love the poetry that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.

Dereck Walcott