In mid-March of 2020, a storytelling strain tore through the internet–what a New York Times reporter dubbed the “Coronavirus Nature Genre.”
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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.
The Palate Politics of Eating Kangaroo
What ethical, environmental, and economic factors shape the palate politics of food and diet in an increasingly unpure yet always more-than-human world?
Wait, What Was So Monstrous About Fatberg?
Unbeknownst 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
Since 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
American 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
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.