Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" , Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" , "Nobody's mammy" : Yemayá as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions , Yemayá's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria , Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion , A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion , Yemoja : divine mother and water goddess , Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement , What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons , "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema , A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival , Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement , Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocación/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado , "Nobody's mammy" : Yemayá as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions , Yemayá's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria , Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion , A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion , Yemoja : divine mother and water goddess , Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement , What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons , "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema , A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival , Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement