Entangled and binary-free: books reflecting queer ecologies
Jessica
"What does it mean to function as a group in a changing environment? How can we organize ourselves intentionally to combat the imbedded isolation of late capitalism? It seems like the dolphins (and out other interloping sharks...the manta rays) have something to tell us."
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In order to tell a story of the world different enough to survive it, we must break free of all kinds of binaries - we must look to the fringes of capitalism and patriarchy to the places where entanglement blooms and resists, where difference and fluidity nourish us. And we must celebrate the fact that our queerness is everywhere around us - that we belong to nature's queerness too.
Although queer ecology, named as such, still remains a subject at the fringes of publishing, it is everywhere in stories, poetry and the work of the most bold thinkers. These are books, across forms, that embody it.
For more online inspiration, these folks and their immense creativity are also worth checking out:
Unnatural Passions?: Notes toward a Queer Ecology by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
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- Undrowned : Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Emergent Strategy Series
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- Gumbs, Alexis Pauline

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- Strange Natures : Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
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- Nicole Seymour

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- Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
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- Sheldrake, Merlin

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- The Mere Wife
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- Headley, Maria

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- Like a Tree, Walking
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- Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo

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- Underflows : Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice
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- Cleo Woelfle Hazard

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- Queer Nature - A Poetry Anthology
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- Walsh, Michael

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- Love After The End : An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
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- Whitehead, Joshua

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- Staying with the Trouble : Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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- Haraway, Donna J.

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- Jonny Appleseed
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- Whitehead, Joshua

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- On the Red Hill : Where Four Lives Fell Into Place
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- Parker, Mike

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- Tentacle
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- Indiana, Rita, Obejas, Achy

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- Hidden Nature : Wainwright Prize 2018 Shortlisted
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- Fowler, Alys