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Current · Sisterhood
Ama · Haenyeo · Sama-Bajau.
Voices from the diving women of the Indo-Pacific and the wider community gathering around them.
Sea Women10 min
What the Body Remembers
The Sama-Bajau have spent a thousand years at sea. The sea wrote itself into their biology. Now the sea is being taken from them — and what happens to a body when the life that made it disappears.
Sea Women11 min
The Year the Sea Keeps
The Ama of Ise-Shima do not measure time by the calendar. They measure it by the tide, the taboo, and the three visits to the mountain temple. On the annual ritual of a diving year — and what it means to live inside a cycle, not against one.
Sea Women9 min
The Haenyeo: A Quiet Kind Of Strength
On Jeju Island, the sea women have been diving for four hundred years. They do not perform their courage. They simply go back into the water — at sixty, at seventy, at eighty-five.