Tag: Queer
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Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins
in EssaysNat Mesnard’s new game, Assemblage, allows players to build and role-play an imaginary multispecies universe. Even more interesting than the creatures themselves: the stunning meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene.
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Swampy Relations & Imperfect Restoration
in EssaysThere’s a sinking swamp in the middle of Manhattan that has kept a host of species safe for millennia. Nat Xu uses the space and their work in it to reflect on Indigenous stewardship, more-than-human precarity, and restorative conservation as an imperfect practice.
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Seance, Queer Climate Activism, and the Radical Faeries
in EssaysCould seance be more than just a party trick? Sam Bean, Alison Schultz, Carmen Warner, and Barbara Leckie unpack its overlooked political history, including how the queer group Radical Faeries used seances to articulate an egalitarian, environmentally-connected identity.
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Reveling in the Gluttony and Glee of Fat Bear Week
in EssaysOnce a fringe event, Fat Bear Week has recently come to the attention of mainstream media. Margaret McGuirk argues that this seemingly frivolous program in fact gives us an opportunity to revel in a queered view of nature.
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Beyond Gender Monocultures, Toward Trans Horizons
in EssaysThe logic of plantations shape people’s lives. Gender has become a monoculture, but Max López Toledano and Topa Zenga argue that growing gender polycultures can offer a means of flourishing.
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Getting Kinky With Ecology
in EssaysDeveloping a theory of kink ecology, Madeleine Bavley imagines a more pleasurable future for the environmental movement.
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Blurring Barriers on Fire Island
in EssaysAmelia Carter maps the shifting geography and queer ecologies of a popular gay resort spot.
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Where the Queer Wild Things Are
in ReviewsCan wildness be its own way of thinking and knowing? And where should we look to find out? Julia Dauer reviews Jack Halberstam’s wide-ranging new book, Wild Things.
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The Queer Ecology of Steven Universe
in EssaysWhen the revolution is won, what comes next? In the popular Cartoon Network show Steven Universe, Gardiner Brown finds a model for queer environmental care.
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Eight Online Environmental Archives to Bookmark
in ChecklistsThese digital environmental archives offer a range of approaches to environmental histories, cultural practices, and ecological changes.