Podcasts about queer nature

Dan O'Neill is a wildlife expert and biologist. He's also the first openly gay wildlife presenter. In this Open Country he's in London to discover what ‘rewilding' means for the capital. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launched the ‘Rewild London Fund' to help make London a leader in urban rewilding, from restoring rivers to reintroducing species currently absent from the capital. One of them is the beaver and at Paradise Fields in Ealing, just down the road from the busy Greenford tube station, a family of five beavers have just been introduced to their new home by conservationist and vet Dr Sean McCormack. Together they will transform a gritty urban wasteland into a wildlife haven with ecosystem benefits for residents' wellbeing and flood defences. The beavers are just one example of the huge growth in biodiversity in the city. As Dan travels from Ealing in the West to the east of the city at The Paddocks in Tottenham Hale, he discovers that there is also growing diversity in the conservation community. He meets LGQBT conservationist Izzy Knight who shares his passion for everything wild and celebrates the ‘Queer Nature' festival at Kew, before heading back to Ealing to see whether he can spot those elusive beavers in their new home.Produced by Helen Lennard

Rachel Moritz is the author of two poetry books, Sweet Velocity (Lost Roads Press, 2017), and Borrowed Wave (Kore Press, 2015), as well as five chapbooks. She's also the co-editor of a collection of personal essays, My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After (The Experiment, 2019), which won the Foreword INDIES Award in Silver. Rachel's work has appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Iowa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, VOLT, Water-Stone Review, and other journals. Her poems and critical writing have been featured in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Verse Daily, and in the anthologies Queer Nature, Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood, Uncoverage: Asking After Recent Poetry, and Jean Valentine: This World Company. She's received a 2019 Best American Essay Notable mention as well as awards, grants, and residencies. Rachel teaches creative writing with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, Unrestricted Interest, and CommonBond Communities. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner and son. www.rachelmoritz.com   M. Ahd grew up moving frequently. They have resided in New Jersey, Iowa, Texas, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic. M has worked as a software company recruiter, sports camera operator, reader to the blind, and arts magazine writer, among other jobs. After teaching high school English and coaching Quiz Bowl for a decade, they now write from home full time. M has been the recipient of the 2016 Barnes and Nobel Regional My Favorite Teacher Contest, named the 2018 National High School Quiz Bowl Coach of the Year, and a finalist for the 2019 Loft Literary Center Mentor Series. M lives in Minneapolis with their spouse, two dogs named Zero and Eleven, and a rotating cast of teens and young adults in need of a spare room.

It was a pleasure to interview the amazing Theatre Director Emily Aboud and Actress Charlotte Dowding. Emma chats with Emily and Charlotte about the queer Caribbean cabaret 'Splintered' and unacknowledged queer nature of Carnival!

Isaiah, Theo, Vincent and Danielle discuss the importance of providing safe spaces for queer children and protecting their innocents and childhood. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Comment s'articulent les luttes LGBTQI+ et les questions écologiques ? Pourquoi peut-il être compliqué de militer en tant que queer dans le milieu écolo, notamment en France ? Quel enrichissement des perspectives politiques les luttes LGBT peuvent-elles apporter à l'écologie ? Comment dépasser la conception mythifiée d'une nature binaire et l'essentialisation des rapports sociaux ? --- Cy Lecerf Maulpoix est journaliste et militant, engagé pour la justice climatique et dans les luttes LGBTQI+ Il est l'auteur du livre Écologies déviantes, dans lequel il étudie l'articulation des luttes LGBT et des questions écologiques. Quels sont ces liens entre ces deux thématiques que l'on n'a pas l'habitude de penser ensemble a priori ? De plus en plus de personnes queer s'engagent au sein du mouvement écolo, mais peuvent peiner à y trouver leur place, du fait des mécaniques sexistes et virilistes qui y existent comme ailleurs. Pourtant, nous verrons que les personnes LGBT peuvent avoir des vulnérabilités spécifiques aux impacts de la crise climatique, du fait de leur plus grande précarité et de leur marginalisation, mais également parce qu'en cas de gestion de catastrophe, la vision hétéronormée qui domine privilégie les familles et les personnes cisgenres. Si on observe depuis quelques temps une prise de conscience de la nécessité de penser ensemble les différentes discriminations systémiques et les questions écologiques, on assiste en même temps à une montée en puissance d'une forme d'écologie réactionnaire, ancrée aussi bien à droite qu'à gauche. En effet, on retrouve aussi bien au sein de l'écologie intégrale catholique qu'au sein de la pensée technocritique ou décroissante la conception figée d'une « Nature » constituée de lois et de limites, au sein de laquelle l'hétérosexualité et la binarité homme/femme sont la norme. L'homosexualité et les transidentés peuvent ainsi être catégorisées comme "contre-nature », et l'argument écologique s'associe à la critique de la technologie pour légitimer plus ou moins frontalement l'exclusion et les violences à l'égard des personnes « déviantes ». Face à ces constats, l'ouvrage Écologies déviantes propose un parcours parmi des figures et des mouvements passés et présents, afin d'enrichir les perspectives politiques et de recomposer les luttes en prenant en compte la diversité des expériences. -- Entretien enregistré le 4/11/2021 Approfondir Ecologies déviantes, édition Cambourakis https://www.cambourakis.com/tout/sorcieres/ecologies-deviantes/ Mediapart - Cy Lecerf Maulpoix : « La lutte climatique demeure encore très blanche et hétérocentrée » https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/240721/cy-lecerf-maulpoix-la-lutte-climatique-demeure-encore-tres-blanche-et-heterocentree?onglet=full

In honor of WorldPride, we're revisiting our 2018 conversation with Elyse Rylander. Elyse is the founder and executive director of OUT There Adventures, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering queer young people through their connection with the natural world. Elyse believes nature is a disruptive force for queer youth and hopes to positively foster their identities and love of the outdoors.She's doing so through her nonprofit, OUT There Adventures. By partnering with existing organizations like Outward Bound and Northwest Youth Corps, she's reaching more queer kids and multiplying the potential impact of OUT There's mission. It takes time, energy, and capital to build a nonprofit. Elyse shares the challenges and rewards of the last five years of work and her vision for years to come.Elyse is also a Co-Creator of the LGBTQ Outdoor Summit and is using this opportunity to announce that there are now dates for the 4th summit! Mark your calendar for April 1 - 4, 2022 at the National Conservation Training Center in West Virginia.You can also find this episode as part of the WorldPride Pod Stage, wherever podcasts are found.Featuring: Elyse Rylander, Founder and Executive Director of OUT There Adventures; Co-creator of the LGBTQ Outdoor SummitHosted & Produced by Gale Straub Sponsored by Goodr, Yonder, Rumpl, & PachamamaJoin the She Explores Podcast community on FacebookVisit She-Explores.com & Follow Us on InstagramResourcesOut There Adventures: Website & InstagramLGBTQ Outdoor SummitElyse's personal instagramWorldPride Pod Stage Sponsor Websites & Discount CodesGoodr: Head over to www.goodr.com and enter EXPLORE15 at checkout for 15% OFF your entire order.Yonder: Book an escape in nature and find your Yonder at Yonder.com.Rumpl: Get 15% off your first order at Rumpl.com with code SHE15 at checkout.Pachamama CBD: Get 40% off Sleep Well CBD Gummies with code EXPLORE at checkout via pachamamaCBD.com.Music is licensed through Musicbed.Episodes air weekly on Wednesdays-- subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

As the co-founder of Queer Nature, an organism that co-creates queer and trans community through multi-species kinship practices, Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd (they/them/o/pay) has thought deeply about their sense of belonging-- or rather, "belonging as resistance," which is Queer Nature's motto. As a trans, autistic, first-generation immigrant and Indigenous migrant, Pınar finds home through sharing and honoring cultural practices with their spouse, So. In this episode, they share reflections from their childhood in Turkey, lessons from the more-than-human world, and the importance of trans, queer, intersex Black and/or Indigenous people of color finding refuge with each other. "Belonging” features four individuals who identify as immigrants or first-generation, and shares stories about their personal and cultural connections to the outdoors. Launched between Canada Day (July 1st) and American Independence Day (July 4th), "Belonging" challenges and redefines notions of what it means to be “outdoorsy,” or “American,” or “Canadian," and celebrates everybody's right to find belonging outside. This miniseries is made in partnership with Merrell. Featured in this episode: Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd Hosted by Sarah Shimazaki Edited by Sarah Shimazaki & Jeff Alvarez A production of Resource Media Album artwork by Ezra Manjarrez

“We all want to be well and spiritually well but how can we also be reciprocal to indigenous communities?" -Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Pınar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd, Co-founder of Queer Nature & Indigequeers. Conversation Highlights: Healing from colonization (depression and bulimia) with the support of indigenous medicines and community. Continued co-opting of Indigenous medicines by colonizers. Reciprocity with Indigenous communities. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womxnofcolorsummit/support

In this episode, Jess Dallman introduces us to the transpersonal counseling dynamic and helps us take a look at how we can slow down and move intentionally with the earth. We explore how we can support each other in accessing our inherent wisdom through experience, and through connection with the natural world. Jess's site: http://www.naturalwisdomcounseling.com/jessica-dallman Joanna Macy: https://www.joannamacy.net/main Richard Louv: http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/ Queer Nature: https://www.queernature.org/

How can queerness guide us as we move through this liminal time period? How can queer ecology radically change our way of knowing? This week’s episode, initially aired in December of 2018, acknowledges that in order to expand ourselves to our fullest capacity, we must bend beyond the cultural and gender binaries that dominant society projects amongst us, to begin this process we need not look further than what has always been. Guided by culturally informed queer ancestral futurist dreams, Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd of Queer Nature explore how queering our awareness can dismantle the supremacist, ecocidal, and genocidal story we have found ourselves in. Queer Nature is an education and social sculpture project based on Arapaho, Ute, and Cheyenne territories that actively dreams into decolonially-informed queer ‘ancestral futurism’ through mentorship in place-based skills with awareness of post-industrial/globalized/ecocidal contexts. Co-envisioned by Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd, Queer Nature designs and facilitates nature-based workshops and multi-day immersions intended to be financially, emotionally, and physically accessible to LGBTQ2+ people and QTBIPOCs. Music by Y La Bamba and Elisapie. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

hiya, coven! This week we're coming at you with a discussion of Nocturna by Maya Motayne. We both loved this book and didn't realize how complex the world building and magical system were until we came together in conversation (aka we're both a little befuddled, and that's fine!). Motayne's debut novel is full of relatable characters and exquisite writing. Oh, and there's magical texting and pining. Have we convinced you to put this on your TBR yet?! Content Warning: this book deals with some heavy topics like emotional and physical abuse, which we discuss at length (although in general terms). Please take this into account when deciding whether to dive into this episode. Call to action this week is some wisdom from Jessie. “This has been a great weekend! Biden won, and I think people should take some time to celebrate, take some time to rest, and then remember that there is still a lot of work to do. Just because 45 is out, doesn't mean everything will be perfect. Support the dems in the run off races in GA, check out local politics in your area and aid the causes you believe in in whatever way you can.” Also, did ya'll know we have a bookshop.org affiliate page? Probably yes because we mention it on the regular. It's bookshop.org/shop/thelibrarycoven. Consider checking out our lists and maybe you'll be inspired to treat yourself to something…and we get a tiny sliver of proceeds! It's a win-win

Danielle and I speak with Pinar and So of Queer Nature about how it might look feel and be to queer and decolonize our understandings of who we are in connection with the places we live. How can we interrupt the dominant narrative of ecologies viewed through the lenses of heterocentric, capitalist, white supremacis colonial narratives? Does the land make space for divergent identities, life ways and lifeforms? How do we as queer folks who seek to learn more about ancestral skills and the land bases we live on practice on lands we may not be ancestrally connected to? Originally aired April 9th, 2018.

Queer Nature explores the little-known, often-overlooked and rare intimate behaviour of the botanical world. Investigating the relationships between ecological thought and queer theory to celebrate the multitude of shapes, gender, sexes and colours that exist around us. Landscape architect Céline Baumann describes the journey that led her to discover and examine diversity within the plant kingdom.

Sarah Keller and Taylor Morton join us on Artemis this week to talk about growing a LGBTQ+ community in the hunting and fishing world. Their initiative is called is Queers and Camo. At a time of social unrest on a national scale, we discuss why inclusiveness matters more than ever in our industry, and what that looks like right now. 1:30 Our guests today are Sarah Keller, who you'll remember from EP 5: Packing Game Out, and Taylor Morton, author of this great Artemis blog Meat on the Table 2:00 - June is Pride month 5:30 – The history of Pride. Riots back then, riots now -- and what change comes out of those movements 9:40 - Being queer and being visible in the hunting/conservation space. It started with a longstanding desire to connect with more LGBTQ people who are hunters and outdoors people 11:00 - Queers and Camo -- making our community a safe, enjoyable space for everyone, and fomenting important dialogue that helps build that  15:00 - On being a hunter before coming out -- one thing builds on another. These aren't compartmentalized pieces of self, they're entwined with each other 15:30 - On Insta, @queersandcamo happy hour forthcoming 16:30 - Growing up around a hunting culture that's white and male makes you cognizant of race/gender/sexuality and how safe you feel outdoors (or, in grocery stores, walking to your car, etc) 17:30 - How does it affect us when our community doesn't reflect who we are? 19:45 - On feeling like you need to present a different version of yourself depending on your geography. Those Confederate flags? Not exactly a welcome mat. Being a hunter in California? That can feel funny, too. 21:20 - Outside Online article on being out and gay, and crossing those two worlds: A Queer Hunter Reflects on Coming Out 25:30 - Discrimination takes more forms than using foul language or denying your services 30:00 - Sometimes the outdoors -- like a long trek tracking elk -- can be a quiet enough space for hard conversations that don't ordinarily get the space to air, like the difference between gender and sexual orientation 31:30 - On including LGBTQ+ voices in any platform with the public eye - it's important 34:00 - Why is it important to have a community specifically for LGBTQ hunters/anglers? 38:30 - Hunting traditions are often passed down through families... part of creating a community is giving others access to that infrastructure. Not everyone has a sporting tradition in their family unit, but they might find it in their chosen family 41:30 - Taylor's piece for Autostraddle called “On the Hunt” and voices from queer women who hunt on a series called "The Outsiders" 45:30 - Resources and online communities: Queer Appalachia, Queer Nature, Pattie Gonia, Unlikely Hikers, The Venture Out Project, The LGBTQ Outdoors Summit, OutSportsman 47:30 - Books: Anything by Audre Lorde, like Zami; Autostraddle REI segment called "The Outsiders"; and just keep up with the news. Read the hate crime stories. Know what's happening. 54:30 - Find Sarah @sj_keller, and Taylor @_taymo_

We bring you part two of Autumn’s interview with So and Pinar, the love organism behind Queer Nature. We discuss the potential dangers of being on the move in an apocalyptic situation, and how to mitigate them. We also talk about extractive versus visionary responses to apocalypse, and the transformative potential of thinking and acting collectively inside of chaos. So and Pinar created a guide highlighting important concepts from this and the previous episode, so feel free to open it and follow along as you listen. HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon PEEP us on IG TWEET @ us @adrienne @Autumn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message

What behaviors and choices make the difference between life and death in a disaster? What are the skills that will matter most in a crisis, and how do we learn them? Autumn interviews the brilliant founders of Queer Nature, who lead workshops and immersions teaching survival skills and natural crafts. In the first of two conversations, Queer Nature drops wisdom on how the mind and body respond to crisis, how non-human systems can be our allies, and what trauma has to do with our survival. Music by Tunde Olaniran, Kaela Drew and Mother Cyborg. SHOW NOTES Deep Survival OODA Loop Window of Tolerance HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon PEEP us on IG TWEET @ us @adrienne @Autumn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message

In this episode, Jacks and Sascha interview Pınar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd from Queer Nature. We discuss everything from mythological remediation, challenging the colonial psychopharmaceutical system, and experiencing parallel realities to mystery as a primary need, ecological ancestral co-regulation, and that true identity can only be found in the collective. It’s a really exciting interview! About Queer Nature: Queer Nature is an education and social sculpture project that actively dreams into decolonially-informed queer ‘ancestral futurism’ through mentorship in place-based skills with awareness of post-industrial/globalized/ecocidal contexts. Place-based skills include naturalist studies, handcrafts, “survival skills,” and recognition of colonial and indigenous histories of land, and are framed in a container that emphasizes deep listening and relationship building with living and non-living earth systems. Queer Nature designs and facilitates nature-based workshops and multi-day immersions intended to be financially, emotionally, and physically accessible to LGBTQ2+ people and QTBIPOCs. We carry the story and hope that these spaces create resilient narratives of belonging for folks who have often been made to feel by systems of oppression that they biologically, socially, or culturally don’t belong. Bios of featured interviewees PINAR (THEY/THEM) Pınar is an Indigenous multi-species futurist, mentor, consultant and trans eco-philosopher; co-founder of Queer Nature, an “organism” stewarding earth-based queer community through ancestral skills, interspecies solidarity and rites of passage. Enchanted by the liminal, Pınar is a future transcestor with Huanca Quechua, Turkish and Chinese lineages. A central prayer that guides them is envisioning decolonially-informed queer ancestral-futurism through interspecies accountability and the remediation of human exceptionalism in the Chthulucene. Their relationship with queerness, hybridity, neurodivergence, Indigeneity and belonging guided their work in developing Queer Ecopsychology with a somatic and depth approach through a decolonial lens. As a survival skills mentor, one of their core missions is to uplift and amplify the brilliant “survival skills” that BIPOC, LGBTQ2SIA+ and other intersectional systemically targeted populations already have in their resilient bodies and stories of survivance. They are a member of Diversify Outdoors coalition. Follow their work on IG via @queerquechua + @queernature SO (THEY/THEM) Sophia ("So") Sinopoulos-Lloyd (they/them) is a white queer Greek-American who grew up in the northern hardwood forests of Alnobak territory (central Vermont). So is a nature-based educator, wilderness EMT, and writer. So worked as a seasonal shepherd throughout college and considers their life path(s) to be deeply inspired by the resilience and tenderness of cloven-hooved beings, who inspired them to study the earth more closely. In 2015 they founded Queer Nature with their spouse Pınar which offers nature-based programming for LGBTQ2SIA+ people with a focus on nature-connection, place-based skills, and transformative experience through queer and decolonial prisms. The soul of So’s work is animated by studies of identity, place, notions of the sacred, and interspecies relationship within contexts of colonization, globalization, migration, and climate crisis. So holds an MA in Religious Studies from Claremont Graduate University, and has had their writing published in The Wayfarer and Written River. Their special interests are being a spouse to their beloved, wildlife tracking, practicing survival skills, emergency medicine, dogs, and helping preparing their communities for uncertain futures. Follow their work on IG via @borealfaun + @queernature Find Queer Nature online: Queer Nature’s website: https://www.queernature.org/ On Instagram: https://instagram.com/queernature On Facebook: www.facebook.com/queernature On Patreon: www.patreon.com/queernature   Links to resources  mentioned: Loam magazine, where their upcoming essay will be published: https://loamlove.com/    Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website: On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

In Part Two of our conversation with Pavini Moray, we continue to trace the river of eros, sensation, and spirit that flows through our ancestral lineages and portals of the everyday. Turning inwards, we ask what must be animated within the self to show up for the places and beings we love? Beyond this, what intuitive sensibilities and knowledges yearn to be reawakened in order to receive? At the heart of this episode’s inquiry into relationship and reciprocity lie emergent lessons for resilience, healing, and strength in this time of earthly crisis and collapse. Dr. Pavini Moray (pronoun: Pe) is a somatic sex therapist and ancestral lineage healing practitioner in private practice in San Francisco. Pavini works with individuals and couples who wish to resolve the past, inhabit their bodies and their pleasure and speak their desires. Pavini is also the founder of Wellcelium, an online sexuality and intimacy school committed to personal and planetary liberation. Pavini hosts a podcast called “Bespoken Bones: Ancestors at the crossroads of sex, magick, and science.” The podcast is released every new and full moon and addresses topics of transgenerational trauma, erotic wellness, and ancestral support. As a queer trans witch, Pavini walks the glitter path of dancing bones, ridiculous delight and old magick. Listen in to Part Two of this intimate conversation as Ayana and Pavini share their reflections on the forest as a teacher of wild love, the field of eros within and beyond the realm of sex, the cyclical nature of death as communion, and strategies for connecting with ancestors of blood and heart. We hope these timely and timeless words activate listeners to journey into the depths of our capacity to care for one another and our beyond-human kin. ♫ Music by Itasca + TAKE ACTION & LEARN MORE + To learn more about Pavini’s work and personal practice visit: https://www.pavinimoray.com, https://www.transcestralhealing.com, https://www.emancipating-sexuality.com, and https://www.wellcelium.org. You can listen to Pavini’s podcast, “Bespoken Bones,” across all platforms like the Podcast App and Spotify or explore the full archive at http://bespokenbones.com. To dig deeper into the topics of ancestral healing and lineage repair, Pavini recommends the following reading list: Ancestral Medicine by Dr. Daniel Foor, Jung and the Ancestors by Sandra Easter, By the Light of My Father’s Smile by Alice Walker. Pavini offers the idea of creating an ancestor altar and making offerings to your well and bright ancestors. + REFERENCES + Pavini references Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens for their paradigm around eco-sexuality & bell hooks’ Belonging: A Culture of Place. Ayana quotes bell hooks’ The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power & a post written by Pinar from Queer Nature https://www.instagram.com/queernature.

Irish author Kevin Barry, winner of the Impac Award and the Goldsmiths Prize, discusses his new novel Night Boat to Tangier, a dark comedy billed as Waiting For Godot meets In Bruges. Novelist and journalist Molly Flatt, who writes about culture and technology for the Bookseller, discusses a growing trend for book versions of successful podcasts. 25 years since the death of Derek Jarman, Mariella is joined by writers Philip Hoare and Mike Parker to explore queer nature writing, a genre concerned with the push and pull of the natural world, from a queer perspective.

In this episode, So & Pinar of Queer Nature share about queer love and learning to belong through weaving webs of accountability with other beings and the land-based practice of cultivating resilience.  Intro music in Quechua by Renata Flores Rivera.

„Divoká flóra má ve městě svoje místo, neměli bychom všechno upravovat a organizovat,“ říká botanik Albert Šturma, který se dlouhodobě zabývá takzvanou městskou divočinou. Šturma se spolupodílel také na výstavě Queer Nature v Galerii VI PER, která zkoumá intimní život rostlin i jejich vztah k městu. V magazínu Spot Albert Šturma na příkladu Karlína ukazuje, jak divoká příroda ve městech funguje, a Irena Lehkoživová z VI PERu vysvětluje, co vlastně znamená pojem Queer Nature. 

SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE ALERT! This episode, released on the 27th anniversary of Rock Rat's birth features a returning guest (Megan Schindler), a shiny new guest (Katie Schoel), a surprise guest (Katie Meraso), and an extra half hour of talk time. Need I go on? Tune in for this incredible discussion with an ebullient team of humans discussing the mental health value in being a rockhound followed by personal discussions of a Queer Nature. Side note: This episode is marked "Explicit" for a handful of adult language, not for any reason denoting aggressive, sexual, or inappropriate language or content. Come along for this Special Edition Episode and be sure to Hit Me Up with your polite, engaged feedback or your availability for interviews to share your own unique experiences! With love and everything else, Rock Rat --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rock-rat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rock-rat/support

How can a queer framework guide us as we move through this liminal time period? How can queer ecology radically change our way of knowing? This week’s episode acknowledges that in order to expand ourselves to our fullest capacity, we must bend beyond the cultural and gender binaries that dominant society projects amongst us, to begin this process we need not look further than what has always been. Music by Y La Bamba & Elisapie. http://www.ylabamba.com/ https://www.elisapie.com

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Sophia ("So") Sinopoulos-Lloyd is a queer Greek-American who grew up in the northern hardwood forests of Alnobak/Abenaki territory (central Vermont). Much of So's work is animated by a study of how personhood and spirituality are interwoven with geography and can be further informed by intimate knowledge of place through naturalist study. Along with their spouse Pinar, So runs Queer Nature and develops nature-based programming for LGBTQ+ people.queernature.org #queernature

Queer Nature is a project that creates a decolonially-informed queer futurism through earth-based skills. Queer Nature recognizes that many people, including LGBTQ2+ people and womxn, have historically not had easy access to the culture of outdoor recreation on Turtle Island.

Queer Nature is a Colorado-based project that creates a decolonially-informed queer futurism through earth-based skills. Queer Nature recognizes that many people, including LGBTQ2+ people and womxn, have historically not had easy access to the culture of outdoor recreation on Turtle Island. Pursuits like hunting, fishing, camping, and tactical or survival skills have been very difficult to access or relate to for anyone who didn't grow up hunting, in Boy Scouts, or in the military. Additionally, LGBTQ2+ community has historically formed in urban America—in places like bars and clubs—the wilderness has not necessarily been a welcoming place for us. To create a space for women and LGBTQ2+ people to access their natural human right to these skills is a revolutionary act in today's world. This program envisions and implements ecological relationship as a vital and often overlooked part of the healing and wholing of populations who have been systemically silenced and marginalized, such as the LGBTQ2+ population, and especially trans and queer people of color and two-spirit folks. Ecological literacy is deep relationship building with living and non-living earth systems through ancestral-futurist resilience skills including naturalist knowledge, so-called ‘survival’ skills, natural crafts, and local cultural/natural history. The Dear Patriarchy Podcast Series is hosted by Broken Boxes Podcast in collaboration with the online publication Indigenous Goddess Gang.

This interview featuring Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd holds a special place in my heart; it's not often I meet people who speak my mind so clearly. I love them and the work they're doing with Queer Nature, a growing Colorado-based project dedicated to cultivating earth-based queer community through traditional skill-building. In this conversation, we dive deeply into the questions: why Quests? why for queer folk? why for queer youth, in particular? and why at this moment in time? Along our exploration, we pause to examine relationships between queerness and landscapes, relationships with the more-than-human world, the language of "quest", and the role of ancestral skill reclamation in dismantling and repairing the legacies of settler colonialism. (!!!) I LOVED THIS CONVERSATION. After this, read Pinar's excellent essay, Queer Futurism: Denizens of Liminality. Enjoy!