I no longer think that science holds little or no bias. Through entrenching heteronormativity and patriarchy, biases hurt not only the queer community but all communities, because they display a skewed image of reality. But perhaps there is hope in stories such as the Orca’s Song, where an osprey and an orca can be wives.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Teja Šosterič
Teja Šosterič (she/her) is a content editor for EHN. She is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), which is a part of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). She has previously worked as a lecturer at LMU's Amerika-Institut and as an editor at the RCC. Her doctoral work at the RCC focuses on climate fiction novels and examines how neoliberal ideology shapes contemporary North American literary works that engage with the ecological crisis and its material reality. She aims to combine political sciences, history, and comparative literary studies in an effort to improve our understanding of human responses to the climate emergency.