Through the lens of queer ecology, I want to explore how Jeff VanderMeer envisions queer inhabitation of the Earth, queer embodiment, and queer coexistence with the nonhuman in ways that challenge binary ideologies and hierarchies.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
When Extinction Came to Disney World
The dusky seaside sparrow was a small songbird once abundant within a small range in Southern Florida.
On Sustainability and Solidarity
As Time Magazine wrote in late 2021, labor unions are “having a moment.” Precarious conditions that have long been the norm have become both more prominent and more severe.
A Well of One’s Own: Caste, Water, and Freedom
On a cool October morning in 2019, I visited Babu on his small plot of farmland, now a lush patchwork of vegetables that his wife sells at weekly markets in nearby towns.
Storied Botanical Collections: The Life & Curatorship of Dr. Dorothy Swales
This blog post is an excerpt drawn from my thesis where I foreground the life and curatorship of Dr. Dorothy Newton Swales (1901-2001), the first woman to curate the McGill University Herbarium.
Life Stories of Women Leaders in Defense and Care of the Environment in Southwestern Colombia, 1990-2022
This is an invitation to get to know, learn and remember the life stories of women who care for and defend nature and their territories.
Towards an Ecocritical Art History
Ecocriticism is founded on a desire to seek out non-hierarchical modes of thinking, which makes it a close cousin to feminist, queer, Marxist, and postcolonial theories.