People, Knowledge & Visually Fun Things
Robin Wall - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants is truly a life changing reading
Lars Horn - Voice of a Fish is a beautiful memoir, often using marine creatures as a lens to reflect on their transmasc life experiences
Adrienne Maree Brown- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Dr Léuli Eshrāghi – Indigenous Aesthetics and Knowledges for Great Ocean Renaissances is a must read!
Dr. Patricia Kaishian, a self described ‘doctor of fungus, a saprotrophic scorpio, and a tinder conk carrying an ember through the anthropocene.’ ⋆｡°✩𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊✧˖ ° My sibling-in-law mentioned Dr. Kaishian’s podcasts to me and ever since, they have opened up space in my mind for fungus and their connection to current experiences.
Instead of me telling you all about it, go look their work up or listen to them on Spotify!!
Mary Maggic is a brilliant self described ‘nonbinary Chinese-American artist and researcher working within the fuzzy intersections of body and gender politics and capitalist ecological alienations’. Their work, including the one above, Milik Bersama Rekombinan, explores molecular colonisation
At first glance, River Code in Yogyakarta is a surreal landscape colonised by plastic, with its marginalised citizens tied intimately with the natural water sources for daily life, I.e., cooking, cleaning, fishing, and playing. It also refers to the interconnectedness of urban ecology and bio politics. While the root of the problem is complex and multifaceted (lack of government infrastructure, pollution as colonialism), it can be seen as a cultural issue that required new strategies for soliciting empathy in toxic-becoming.
I strongly suggest looking more into their amazing art and writing pieces ~~~