black queer ecology
sexuality
relationships
blackness
intimacy
touch
taste
smell
pleasure
pain
interspecies
funk
mess
darkness
mystery
knowledge
refusal
fugitivity
perversion
ocean
power
disability
how a body functions
discourses of nature and what is natural and what is childlike and what is animal
accesses
ecology
what is human and what is not?
what is alive and what is not?
what is natural and what is not?
gender and sex
what is natural and what is not?
how do you love and tend to a dying planet?
Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene
is there a right way?
is it fixed?
is it measurable?
entanglements of human, plant, animal, machine
nature is queer
and black
no
it is beyond, it is in the dark, in the depths, in the storm
what if we treated our trash, the things we have created and subsequently decided are unnatural and should again be discarded, with the love and care that we treat the things we know we need to keep
it doesn't actually matter what it is, it's the relationships
How can this relationship be erotic, centering our senses and intuition, and liberated from the fear of and in our bodies? How can it center desire, play, joy, emergence? How can it dismiss shame and guilt? How can it deal in the murkiness that emerges when our flesh is involved?
A love for the planet that actually mirrors the complexity, moral ambiguity, funk, darkness, and depth that that planet shows us. This love does not rely on the valuing of certain bodies, movements, or ways of being as natural or superior.
What is an ecology that does not fear the vastness of expression and presence in the human body nor the non human one? That honors the aliveness and spirit in all things? What is an ecology that is not anti-Black? That moves towards the change of our climate with a spirit of adaptability, flexibility, promiscuity and curiosity and a healthy dose of anarchy?
action
voice
Candy - Big Maybelle
sunshower - dr. buzzards original savannah band
under my umbrella - margo guryan
hurricane footage, wind, water
Conjuring Black Funk
M Archive
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"I’ve come to understand that the enemy of health is neither pharmaceuticals nor snake oil, but dogma. The body is too unwieldy to fit within any totalizing discourse."
how can this expand/extend to nonhuman bodies?
social model - emphasis on environmental factors
disability justice
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