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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 590–601.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for the “stubborn particularity” of queerness that resists generalization in the context of the massive scale of the Anthropocene. 39 We propose that this “stubborn particularity” of queerness and the stubborn particularity with which concepts of sex, gender, and sexuality circulate, shape, and are variously...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Marianna Szczygielska Abstract Contemporary zoological gardens are hoping to delay the sixth mass extinction through captive breeding of endangered species. This article explores the dominant temporal orders invoked by managing animal sex in captivity in order to unfold unnatural histories...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 618–640.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of both sex and nature and consequently introduces environmentally attuned thinking to early twentieth century sexual knowledge production. By examining the parallels and divergences between Magnus Hirschfeld’s early twentieth-century sexological writing about “transvestitism” and Loïe Fuller’s modernist...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Astrida Neimanis Abstract How do settler colonialism, control of women’s and differently gendered bodies, sex, industry, pollution—but also pleasure, love, care, desire, bodily autonomy, and survival—cleave together and apart in the inland wetland of Windermere Basin park? Starting...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... phytopoetic history of plants and sexuality, it demonstrates with the help of literature how plants have been shaping human culture—in this context, the sociocultural norms and understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Moving from vegetal visions of virtuous, virginal women-plants and their corruption...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., while gay frog memes are shared online by users from across the political spectrum. This article offers a genealogy of the gay frog, situating this recent moment in the longer history of “sex panics” over gay animals described by queer ecologists, and in the context of an ongoing backlash against...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Some inhuman animals seek out and uncover our wastes. These ‘trash animals' choke on, eat, defecate, are contaminated with, play games with, have sex on, and otherwise live out their lives on and in our formal and informal dumpsites. In southern Canada's sanitary landfills, waste management typically...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 584–589.
Published: 01 November 2022
... deliveries, shows her how to tie the knots that are essential to their boat travel from island to island, and mediates her relationships with the other plant people. At the same time, Larapinta insinuates herself into Kaden’s sex life. She engages her in conversation about gender and sexual identity based...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 680–698.
Published: 01 November 2022
... studies postcolonial queer ecology sex tourism utopia Describing Fritz Lang’s Weimar-Era masterpiece Metropolis (1926), Nezar AlSayyad contends that “utopias, when pushed to their logical conclusion, become dystopic and, conversely, all dystopias have embedded in them a utopian dream.” 1...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
... at large. Taking up this challenge, this special section aims at attending to the ways toxic embodiment disturbs or aligns with multiple boundaries of sexes, generations, races, geographies, nation-states, and species and how toxicity has re-dynamized corporeality and the biochemical materiality of bodies...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 718–725.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... This issue on sex and nature reminds us that the environmental humanities must engage queer studies and vice versa, because everybody and every body is experiencing planetary climate breakdown and species extinction, and this calls for new kinds of relations, pleasures, and embodiments. However, what makes...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 159–165.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., Bite Hard,” and “Shut Up and Train,” I propose “Make Kin Not Babies!” Making kin is perhaps the hardest and most urgent part. Feminists of our time have been leaders in unraveling the supposed natural necessity of ties between sex and gender, race and sex, race and nation, class and race, gender...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 May 2017
... a sustainable gay lifestyle that can encourage gay liberation and avoid epidemic disease over the long haul, we have to learn to think ecologically about sex.” 14 TSRTSB , I would argue, also helps us “learn to think ecologically about sex”—not, as Rotello would have it, by tracing the contextual...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 692–696.
Published: 01 November 2024
... same-sex desire, with characters forced to confront their desires through the earthy spectacle of flowers bursting out of one’s mouth. Following Nicole Seymour’s work on queer ecologies, a critical analysis of Hanahaki reveals how the “uniquely empathetic imaginations” of queer fictions “foment urgent...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... so well, because the best thing machos (males) can do is to find fêmeas (females). All machos think about is sex,” one of the scientists jokingly noted. During fieldwork, I heard many variations of “jokes” about horny machos that, driven by their insatiable and unending desire for sex, won over...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
... is a philosophy, a way of life.” 15 Similarly, Bourette affirms Stanford's theory when she concludes, “Meat-eating is what made us human.” 16 Annie Potts and Jovian Parry, in “Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity through Meat-free Sex,” examine the online hostile reactions of meat...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to Edelman’s position by offering a more optimistic account of forward-looking temporization—or what he refers to as “queer futurity.” Cruising Utopia , 22, 49 . 60. See also McGowan, Enjoying What We Don’t Have , 41–42 ; Sheldon, Child to Come . 61. See Berlant and Edelman, Sex , 122...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 216–238.
Published: 01 May 2019
... or between, gendered spaces.” 2 Trans and transing in this article, then, refer, on the one hand, to transgender as a gendered movement away from birth-assigned sex toward various trans positions, 3 including non-binary and/or generally gender-non-conforming identities, as well as expressing...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., mostly involving budding or fission, they also exchange genetic material—which many researchers refer to as sexual activity. 40 What is new about eurkaryote sex is the way nuclei split into separate sex cells capable of fusing with those of another parent organism. While bacterial gene transfer...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
... stable species boundaries, heteronormative modes of reproduction, and appropriative and extractive approaches to land. “astonishd fish” also contributes to Gowanus atropolis ’s wider efforts in unfixing sex and gender categorizations and norms, including beyond the narrow borders of the human. 55...
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