“What I found was that the languages of deviance and denigration (for example, the term ‘vagrant juveniles,’ used to describe hooded seals), awkwardly binary assignments of biological sex, and a strange criminalization of mammals that escaped the gaze of biologists showed up in what would call itself the ‘neutral’ scientific language of marine guidebooks. I just wanted to know which whale was which, but I found myself confronted with the colonial , racist, sexist, heteropatriachalizing capitalist constructs that are trying to kill me– the net I am already caught in, so to speak. So how can I tell you who and what I saw?” (Alexis Pauline Gumbs, p.6, 2020)
Knomadic 