Caring for Toxic Tobacco Cultivation Across Caribbean and Andean Colombia
In the Caribbean and Andean regions of Colombia, women and children perform(ed) the necessary labor to sustain the rural communities at the heart of toxic production of tobacco. In tracing these histories of care and toxicity, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey and Margarita Martínez-Osorio ask what accountability looks like today …
La emergencia climática a través imaginarios multidimensional de Flatland
La novela decimonónica Flatland, de Edwin A. Abbott, suele describirse como una obra de ciencia ficción (o ficción matemática). Valeria Zambianchi sostiene que también puede leerse como ficción climática, en la medida en que muestra que las posibilidades para enfrentar la crisis climática ya están presentes en nuestro mundo …
Recrafting the Brazilian Arboreal Archive
Records of Tree Day ceremonies in Brazil’s public archives belie a mass felling of native trees over the twentieth century. Combining archival photographs with poetic text, the duo Paisagens Móveis re-craft the archive’s narrative through artwork: Cidade-Jardem, or Garden City …
The Art of Arctic Plants: A Conversation with Zachari Logan
Zachari Logan has built a career on drawing plants. In this interview, Isabelle Gapp talks with him about his residency at Kinngait Studios, where carpets of plants “erupt” across the tundra …
The “Big Pig Pyramid” and the Undoing of Rural America: A Conversation with Sonja Trom Eayrs
Trish Fisher talks with Sonja Trom Eayrs about her new book: Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America. They discuss factory farming, political intimidation, and the corporate transformation of rural America …
Lions and Tigers and Tabbies, Oh My! Two Reviews of La Berge’s Marx for Cats
La Berge’s Marx for Cats tells the story of capitalism through cats. In these reviews, Magaryta Golovchenko and Marta Wolny discuss what felines add to the conversation …
Tuberous Entanglements and the Potato Empire
Tatsiana Shchurko follows potatoes through personal memories and uneven global histories. From the Andes to Belarus, she traces how the potato mediates imperial power while fueling peasant resistance and sustaining everyday life …
Contaminated Art on the Plastic Archipelago
On the metropolitan archipelago of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, where plastic intermingles with organic matter, mixed media artist Alex Côté Hallé creates art that intertwines the urban, the fluvial, and the queer …
Cinco razões pelas quais o fracasso de Henry Ford no Brasil ainda importa hoje
Neste guia rápido sobre o impacto duradouro de Henry Ford na Amazônia, o diretor de Beyond Fordlândia compartilha histórias pouco conhecidas de violência, poluição e ativismo que descobriu durante as filmagens do novo documentário …
Wild, Queer Kinship
Andrea Natan Feltrin always felt they attuned to the rhythms of the natural world differently than others. Queer ecology provided a language for these intuitions …
Mothering in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Kayleigh Lobdell speaks with authors Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder about each of their recent books about human and beyond-human mothering in this political and ecological moment …
Winter’s Muted Garden
What does a garden become in winter? Émilie Gervais explores winter’s sensory and narrative landscape through a community garden’s fence …
