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- ISBN 9780810148376
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An urgent exploration of caring and mothering on a planet in crisis
In a swell of sea-linked essays, Christina Rivera explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’ s blue womb. Rivera's investigative questions begin with the toxic burden of her body and spiral out - to a grieving orca, a hunted manta ray, a pregnant sea turtle, a spawning salmon, an 'endling' porpoise, and the 'mother culture' of sperm whales - as she redefines what it means to mother and defend a collective future.
Braiding memoir with embodied climate science, Rivera challenges that it's not anthropomorphism to feel deep connection to nonhuman species and proposes that gathering in collective grief is essential amid the sixth mass extinction. For ecofeminists, fans of Rachel Carson and Terry Tempest Williams - and for anyone who feels themself disintegrate in the presence of the sea - My Oceans offers a timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.
In a swell of sea-linked essays, Christina Rivera explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’ s blue womb. Rivera's investigative questions begin with the toxic burden of her body and spiral out - to a grieving orca, a hunted manta ray, a pregnant sea turtle, a spawning salmon, an 'endling' porpoise, and the 'mother culture' of sperm whales - as she redefines what it means to mother and defend a collective future.
Braiding memoir with embodied climate science, Rivera challenges that it's not anthropomorphism to feel deep connection to nonhuman species and proposes that gathering in collective grief is essential amid the sixth mass extinction. For ecofeminists, fans of Rachel Carson and Terry Tempest Williams - and for anyone who feels themself disintegrate in the presence of the sea - My Oceans offers a timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.
Christina Rivera is a Pushcart Prize-– winning essayist from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of Pacific Ocean. She is a winner of the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. Her writing has appeared in Orion, Terrain.org, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
