Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat ethical, environmental, and economic factors shape the palate politics of food and diet in an increasingly unpure yet always more-than-human world?
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Wait, What Was So Monstrous About Fatberg?
Reading Time: 7 minutesUnbeknownst to many, beneath the surface, an intricate network of calcified entanglements emerges, encapsulating fragments of our material history from both past and present, woven together by the mundane acts of flushing, washing, and draining.
Swimming with Trash in the Caribbean
Reading Time: 7 minutesSince I was a child, my family has always avoided the annoyance of waiting for the trash collector by using natural means during the rainy periods.
John Sloan’s ‘Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue,’ and the Environmental Implications of Industrialized New York City
Reading Time: 6 minutesAmerican painting has continuously investigated the relationship between the citizens of the United States and their natural landscape.
On Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘This World is Full of Monsters’: Queer Ecology as a Pathway to Queer Embodiment
Reading Time: 5 minutesThrough 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.
