QUEER ECOLOGY

as a different way of thinking ecology, one possible visual concept is mesh or meshing. 

Mesh is what keeps us together- is a plethora of intersections.

Mesh has strands that connect and it also has holes.

“Ecological humiliation”

heterosexism and binary gender expression are not universal – in other life forms

there is lots of gayness, of hemophrodites and other expressions

also play (bonobos)

When we think of sexuality as binary, it perpetrates violence

Queer ecology allows for the blurring of distinctions between genetic expressions

RNA and DNA are life machines—they operate in some ways like viruses, going through their programs.

Strange stranger= the one that doesn’t ever become familiar. They are alien and familiar at same time.

Like when you look at a close old friend or spouse and you go.. wow you are so weird looking.. even after years.. or you realize you will never know that being.. they will never be the same as you… they will always be strange or alien.

“recognizing the multiplicity of difference”

difference is everywhere

the collectivity is also strange; not just the individual

we don’t have the capacity to do that because we have not encountered it; therefore how do we return those rights to the other(s).

we have multiple ways to associate; there is never just one way to produce relations. To have relationality (kinship as Haraway and indigenous people would say)

weakness over mastery..

we are always desiring… individuals.. machines..

project of queer ecology.. we will never be there.. we are not there yet..

structural problems cannot be fixed by solution oriented processes. (why? Because we do not have the capacity to understand enough of it to not fuck it up worse.. )

desire to get closer is important however, even if we can’t get there..

Masculinity as a hierarchical order and value has consequences because it carries along a normative neutrality that is a fiction

“leave no trace” impossible.. there is always a trace.. the humans have interrelatedness and impact no matter what (but you can still pick up your litter)

“dark ecology” (Morton):

a realistic ecology that removes cultural ideas of nature.

Queer, changing, interrelated.

Meshlike, interactive

Start with an overappreciation of another’s enjoyment beyond your tolerance