This week, I talk about human and beyond-human acts of mothering with authors Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder and Jennifer Case. In this episode, Chelsea and Jennifer discuss and compare their respective books about motherhood—Mother, Creature, Kin (Broadleaf Books, 2025) and We Are Animals (Trinity University Press, 2024)—and offer insights into their creative ...

In this conversation with scholar, activist, artist and scientist Cleo Wölfle Hazard, we consider river justice in the context of ecologies shaped by (impermanent, but ongoing) settler-colonialism. Dr. Wölfle Hazard discusses his 2022 text Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice (University of Washington, 2022) and his work with sovereign ...

In this wide-ranging and critical conversation, I speak with Jen Rose Smith about her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic (Duke University Press, 2025). In it, she reflects on the political stakes of writing about Alaska as an Eyak scholar, Indigenous studies ...

Earlier this fall, I had the pleasure of speaking with Alexander Menrisky about his new book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). The book is a deep study into how different products we consume—what he calls “threshold objects”—offer lenses into how ecofascist ideas ...