Sitting at home for the last few months, I’ve reflected on what it would mean to listen to and amplify the voices of the farmers protesting in India without being at the protest site even once.
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The Hidden Seeds of the Alexandria Library
Buy, borrow, or steal was the motto. Alexandria was the capital of world knowledge, and ships using its coast were searched for books of any kind.
Smoke and Plastic: Feeling the Environmental Past
The suggestion that Barbie lives in an immaterial world was not lost on environmental icon Smokey Bear who, upon noticing her campsite, tweeted a visual critique.
Bodies and Sexuality in Gilead: A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of The Handmaid’s Tale
While watching The Handmaid’s Tale, I could not help but think about how many acts of cruelty against women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and marginalised people are actually the norm in a number of societies.
No One Is A Virus: On American Ecofascism
In mid-March of 2020, a storytelling strain tore through the internet–what a New York Times reporter dubbed the “Coronavirus Nature Genre.”
Toxic Beauty: Poisonous Colours in the Artificial Flower Industry
Disease, death, and pollution are not the first words that usually come to mind when thinking about colour.