Resources

Books:

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. By Alexis Shotwell (2016)

Animacies: Biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect. By Mel Y. Chen (2012)

Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World. Kath Weston (2017).

Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover. By Beth Stephens, Jennie Klein, Annie Sprinkle, & Linda Montano (2021)

Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics. by Norah Mackendrick (2018)

Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. By Bruce Bagemihl (2000)

Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. by Stacey Alaimo (2010)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. by Eli Clare (2017)

Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation. By Juno Salazar Parreñas (2018)

Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities. Eds. Sarah Jaquette Ray, Jay Sibara (2017)

The Economization of Life. By Michelle Murphy (2019)

Emergent Strategy by adrienne mariee brown (2017)

Evolution’s rainbow: Diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people. By Joan Roughgarden (2013)

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. by Eli Claire (2015)

The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. By Macarena Gómez-Barris (2017)

Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders. By Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (2018)

Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. By Elizabeth Povinelli (2016)

Making Love with the Land: Essays. by Joshua Whitehead (2022)

The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion. by Eli Clare (2016)

Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. By Andil Gosine (2021)

Plastic Matter. by Healther Davis (2022)

Pleasure Activism. by adrienne mariee brown (2019)

The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti. By Erin L. Durban (2023)

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them. by Junauda Petrus (2019)

Strange Natures. by Nicole Seymore (2013)

Touch: Sensuous theory and multisensory media. by Laura Marks (2002)

Queer Environmentability: Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature. by Robert Azzarello (2016)

Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Bruce Erikson eds. (2010)

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage. By Jennifer Row (2022)

Trans*plantations of Life: How Capital Makes and Changes Kinds by Dylan McCarthy Blackston (forthcoming)

Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice. By Cleo Woelfle-Erskine (2022)

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. By Alexis Pauline Gumbs (2020)

Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods. by Sandor Katz (2016)

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. By Jack Halberstam (2020)

Journal Issues:

Journal for Creative Geography: Queer Ecologies Issue

“From Queer/Natures to Queer Ecologies” 15(1), special issue of UnderCurrent: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies

Queer Inhumanisms, eds. Mel Y. Chen, Dana Luciano, GLQ Special Issue V.21(2015)

Non-QTE Books by Symposium Speakers:

Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. By Martin Manalansan (2003)

Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City. By Anahi Russo-Garrido (2020)

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage. By Jennifer Row (2022)

The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti. By Erin L. Durban (2023)

Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming. By Carly Thomsen (2021)

Articles:

Ach, Jada. (2016). “Left All Alone in This World’s Wilderness”: Queer Ecology, Desert Spaces, and Unmaking the Nation in Frank Norris’s “McTeague”. Western American Literature, 51(2).

Agard-Jones, Vanessa. (2014). Spray. Somatosphere.

Ah-King, Malin., & Hayward, Eva. (2013). Toxic sexes—Perverting pollution and queering hormone disruption. O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies, 1. Republished on Technosphere Magazine.

Ahuja, Neel. (2015). Intimate atmospheres: Queer theory in a time of extinctions. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 21(2-3).

Anglin, Sallie. (2015). Generative Motion: Queer Ecology and Avatar. Journal of Popular Culture, 48(2).

Birke, Lynda. (2000). Sitting on the fence: Biology, feminism and gender-bending environments. Women’s Studies International Forum, 23(5).

Blackston, Dylan McCarthy. Monkey Business: trans*, animacy, and the boundaries of kind. In Angelaki Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 22(2) (2017).

Carman, Colin. (2012). Grizzly Love. GLQ, 18(4).

Chaskes, D. (2019). Decolonizing the Immigration Narrative: A Queer Ecology in Chinelo Okparanta’s “America”. Melus, 44(2).

Chen, Mel. Y. (2011). Toxic animacies, Inanimate Affections. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17(2-3).

Daniel Chaskes, Decolonizing the Immigration Narrative: A Queer Ecology in Chinelo Okparanta’s “America”, MELUS, Volume 44, Issue 2, Summer 2019

Davis, Heather. (2015). Toxic progeny: The plastisphere and other queer futures. PhiloSOPHIA, 5(2).

Di Chiro, Giovanna. (2010). Polluted politics? Confronting toxic discourse, sex panic, and eco-normativity. In Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson (eds.) Queer ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire.

Driskill, Qwo-Li (2010), Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies. GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (16).

Durban, Erin L. Postcolonial disablement and/as transition: Trans* Haitian narratives of breaking open and stitching together. In Transgender Studies Quarterly, 4(2) (2017).

Earles, Elise, and Alex Zahara, with KJ Shepherd (2018). “Categories aren’t these things that are just there”: An interview with the CLEAR Lab’s Queer Science Reading Group. Lady Science.

Fajardo, Kale. Queering and Transing the Great Lakes: Filipino/a Tomboy Masculinities and Manhoods Across Waters. In GLQ: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 2014, Vol.20(1)

Gaard, Greta. (2011). Green, Pink, and Lavender: Banishing Ecophobia through Queer Ecologies, Review of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson, eds. Ethics and the Environment, 16(2).

Gandy, M. (2012). Queer Ecology: Nature, Sexuality, and Heterotopic Alliances. Environment and Planning. D, Society & Space, 30(4).

Griffiths, Timothy M.. (2015). O’er Pathless Rocks. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 22(2).

Hayward, Eva. FINGEREYES: Impressions of Cup Corals. Cultural Anthropology, (2010) Vol. 25(4).

Hayward, Eva. Lessons From a Starfish. In: The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022).

Hayward, Eva. Sensational Jellyfish: Aquarium Affects and the Matter of Immersion. differences (2012) 23(3).

Hayward, Eva. Spider city sex. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, (2012) Vol. 20(3).

Hayward, Eva. Toxic Sexes: Perverting Pollution and Queering Hormone Disruption. O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies, (2013) Vol.1.

Hayward, Eva. (2014). Transxenoestrogenesis. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 1(1-2).

Kaishian, Patricia, H Djoulakian. The science underground: mycology as a queer discipline. In Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 6(2). (2020).

Kier, Bailey. (2010). Interdependent ecological transsex: Notes on re/production,“transgender” fish, and the management of populations, species, and resources. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 20(3).

Lamoreaux, Janelle. (2019). ‘Swimming in Poison’: Reimagining Endocrine Disruption through China’s Environmental Hormones. Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (e-journal) 30.

Lee, Robyn, and Roxanne Mykitiuk. (2018). Surviving difference: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, intergenerational justice and the future of human reproduction. Feminist Theory.

Manalansan, Martin. Messing up sex: The promises and possibilities of queer of color critique. In Sexualities 2018, Vol. 21(8).

Mackendrick, Norah (2014) More work for mother: Chemical body burdens as a maternal responsibility’. Gender and Society, 28(5).

Martin, Emily. (1991). The egg and the sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16(3).

Murphy, Michelle. (2013). Distributed reproduction, chemical violence, and latency. Scholar and Feminist Online, 11(3).

Murphy, Michelle. (2017). Alterlife and decolonial chemical relations. Cultural Anthropology, 32(4).

Murphy, Michelle. “Against Population, Towards Alterlife” in Making Kin, Not Population, editors Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway and (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018)

Murphy, Michelle. “Unsettling Care: Troubling Transnational Itineraries of Affect in Feminist Health Practices” for special issue “The Politics of Care in Technoscience” of Social Studies of Science 45.5 (2015)

Morton, Timothy. (2010). Guest Column: Queer Ecology. PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 125(2).

Nyong’o, Tavia. (2012). Back to the Garden: Queer Ecology in Samuel Delany’s “Heavenly Breakfast”. American Literary History,24(4).

O’Laughlin, Lauren. (2016) Interrogating ecofeminisms: Reading endocrine disruptor panics as assemblages. Green Theory and Praxis, 9(6).

Oppermann, Serpil. (2016). Toxic bodies and alien agencies: Ecocritical perspectives on ecological others. In Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Kim (eds). The Postcolonial World.

Parkins W., (2018) “Edward Carpenter’s Queer Ecology of the Everyday”, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 0(26).

Pollock, Anne. (2016). Queering Endocrine Disruption. In Katherine Behar (ed.) Object-Oriented Feminism.

Reed, Jennifer J. (2019). In Pursuit of Social Justice at the Postmodern Turn: Intersectional Activism through the Lens of the Ecosexual Movement.

Sandilands, Catriona. (2003). Eco Homo: Queering the Ecological Body Politic, Social Philosophy Today, 19.

Scott, Dayna Nadine (2009). “Gender-benders”: Sex and law in the constitution of polluted bodies. Feminist Legal Studies, 17(3).

Scott, Dayna Nadine (2012). Pollution and the body boundary: exploring scale, gender and remedy. In Janice Richardson and Ericka Rackley (eds.) Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law.

Scott, Dayna Nadine, Haw, Jennie., & Lee, Robyn. (2017). ‘Wannabe Toxic-Free?’From precautionary consumption to corporeal citizenship. Environmental Politics, 26(2).

TallBear, Kim. (2018). Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sex and Family. In Adele E. Clark and Donna Haraway (eds.) Making Kin Not Population. Prickly Paradigm Press.

Weil, Abraham (2017). Trans* versal animacies and the mattering of black trans* political life. Angelaki Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 22(2).

Weil, Abraham B. “Transmolecular Revolution,” in Trans Studies in Deleuze and Guattari: A Schizoanalytic Application. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2021.

Weil, Abraham B. “Transversal Animacies,” in Tranimacies: Intimate Links Between Animal and Trans* Studies. New York, NY: Routledge Press. 2020.

Artists:

Reb L Limerick

Edgar Fabian Frias

Corinne Teed

Just Seeds Collective

Queer Ecology Hanky Project