![]() ![]() These men make up the musical group clipping. You might have noticed that this story of strange fish has three coauthors Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes. The episode followed producer Neil Drumming as he covered the topic and also commissioned a song called The Deep from experimental hip-hop group Clipping. Yetu was so relatable to me because of all the pain, confusion, resistance, love and respect that she feels towards her responsibility to remember the past. The strange creatures, the memories that intercept Yetu’s story, and that one Shape-of-Water-moment. ![]() But Yetu soon realizes her true power, and what she must do to save her people. That remembering is destroying her, so she swims away from home to heal and forget. ![]() Where an underwater society of people protect the Deep, protect the memory of their first mothers, the pregnant African women thrown overboard by slavers in the Middle Passage, and have the power to guide the ocean towards calm or chaos.Īt the center of this story is Yetu, the young historian who is charged with remembering all of the pain and joy of her people. The Deep started as a song by then expanded to a book by which felt like reading a movie.Įscape into a world where we the land-dwelling two-legged are not alone. The Deep by Rivers Solomon, who’s currently best known for the science-fiction novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, tells a unique story of a water-dwelling people. ![]()
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