Queer ecology explained

Did it ever occur to you that the animals, plants, and fungi might be queer? Queer ecology explained.

If not, that is exhibit A in our case for the importance of Queer Ecology, a field that challenges our heteronormative, cisnormative, and anthropocentric views of the natural world. It recognizes the fluidity and diversity of identities and relationships in both human and non-human realms. It aims to foster inclusive relationships with the environment and life that encompass and celebrate its broad spectrum, rather than limit it.

It collapses systems of oppression and blooms a new regenerative perspective. Queer ecology offers us a critical lens to understand these relationships through, beyond the narrative of the binary. When we’re limited or fixed in what we understand as natural versus unnatural, or appropriate versus deviant, we misinterpret the world around us.

Hetero/cisnormative perspectives assert views like sex being based primarily on biological reproduction and these values go on to shape human interactions with their environment, other humans, and non-human animals. What might happen if we prescribe values outside of cis and heteronormative norms?

Queering nature is our connection to an expansive view that examines the wide possibility of relationships – not their limits.

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