used to read a lot of books years ago, now my focus is kinda ruined but maybe this will help me a bit
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Lambda Literary Award finalist
In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry …
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how …
For Trevor Goward, the curator of the lichen collection at the University of British Columbia, the extreme tolerances of lichens are an example of what he calls the “lichening rod effect.” Lichens invite flashes of insight, or“supercharged understanding” in Goward’s words. The lichening rod effect describes what happens when lichens strike familiar concepts, splintering them into new forms. The idea of symbiosis is one such example. Survival in space is another, as is the threat that lichens pose to systems of biological classification. “Lichens tell us things about life,” Goward exclaimed to me.“They inform us.”
“lichening rod effect” is my new favorite expression
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how …
reading this book is turning out to be hard lol, it's too packed with too many excellent references that I feel compelled to check out, I can make it to 2-3 pages max per day..
The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethically and emotionally sustainable. …
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestor's …
In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor …
feels preposterous to even write a review, just excellent
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of …
great book for queer teens
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to …
No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None …
No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A …
«The imperative is to recognize the regime of offsetting—of carbon, ecosystems, deforestation, pollution, forced migration, land grabs, climate change—as a neocolonial enterprise that continues extraction through displacement of waste and the ongoing legacy of colonial “experiments.”»
«Through the categories of nonbeing, trajectories of colonial enterprise exclude the very subjects who make up the racialized strata of extraction and exposure. This flesh gets spiked by the Anthropocene.»
«The geologic claims on and in black and brown flesh establish stratigraphic traces that are both bone deep and intergenerational, marking bodies with nuclear radioisotopes and skin with codes of disposability in the proximity to power and toxicity. Precisely because modernity (and premodernity) is secured in a subjectivity that is inscripted at the onset in race, the diagnostic of the Anthropocene does not unleash any ethical crisis in liberal discourse about who is targeted by these material practices. What is at stake and what is on the front line are defined through the color line. The disembodied monuments and matter of the Golden Spike point but don’t name. This is why the Anthropocene is configured in a future tense rather than in recognition of the extinctions already undergone by black and indigenous peoples. Following in the wake of humanism, the production of the Anthropocene is predicated on Whiteness as the color of universality.»
No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A …
«The very “matter” of territorial impulse that materially comprised the Anthropocene is anti-Blackness; it is racialized matter that delivers the Anthropocene as a geologic event into the world, through mining, plantations, railroads, labor, and energy. While Blackness is the energy and flesh of the Anthropocene, it is excluded from the wealth of its accumulation. Rather, Blackness must absorb the excess of that surplus as toxicity, pollution, and intensification of storms. Again, and again.»
