Climate and Culture

Queer Ecology

Queer Ecology

Queer Ecology

The queer experience is rooted in expression and acceptance—a celebration of all the unique and individual natures that make up the whole of nature, a rich tapestry woven by biodiversity.

Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth

Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth

Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth Over 300 bills have been introduced just this year in an attempt to erase queer people, including a total ban of trans healthcare in, among other places, Texas. Atmos contributor Riley Black explores why planting seeds of hope is essential to the fight against bigotry.

Identity & Community Queer Ecology

Queer Climate Activists Speak Out After COP27 in Egypt

Queer Climate Activists Speak Out After COP27 in Egypt

Queer Climate Activists Speak Out After COP27 in Egypt This year’s climate negotiations were held in Egypt, a country notoriously known for its human rights abuses against the LGBTQIA+ community. Non-Egyptian queer climate activists talk to The Frontline about why they still went.

The Frontline Environmental Justice

Uprooting the Tree of Life

Uprooting the Tree of Life

Uprooting the Tree of Life The image of the Tree of Life depicts a world neatly organized by lines of progress. But the living world is much more exciting: it’s a tangled network of relationships, both biological and chosen.

Science & Nature Queer Ecology

ANOHNI On Queer Ecology and Trans Ferality

ANOHNI On Queer Ecology and Trans Ferality

ANOHNI On Queer Ecology and Trans Ferality In the early ’90s, few artists were connecting the dots between queer erasure and ecocide—but ANOHNI was. Four years after her first contribution to Atmos, the transdisciplinary artist reflects on her pioneering work in queer ecology, trans ferality, and moving beyond binary notions of nature.

Art & Culture Earth Sounds

In Florida, Queer Youth Battle Bigotry and Climate Change

In Florida, Queer Youth Battle Bigotry and Climate Change

In Florida, Queer Youth Battle Bigotry and Climate Change Right-wing monsters are tormenting young LGBTQIA+ people by writing and passing homophobic and anti-trans bills. In Florida, queer youth climate activists speak out.

The Frontline Democracy

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature For many queer people, nature is a place free of judgment and conformity, where diversity is celebrated and crucial to survival. Here, queer models weighed in on how queerness and nature connect—a reminder that there is nothing more natural than being who you are.

Art & Culture Queer Ecology

ALOK and Munroe Bergdorf on the Power of Trans Imagination

ALOK and Munroe Bergdorf on the Power of Trans Imagination

ALOK and Munroe Bergdorf on the Power of Trans Imagination Who gets to determine another person’s reality? Alok Vaid-Menon has become a global leader in the trans and nonbinary liberation movement. Here, they speak with fellow luminary Munroe Bergdorf about the rise of fascism in the U.S. and U.K., the dangers of dictating what is natural, and the power of trans imagination.

Art & Culture Identity & Community

What Can Queer Ecology Teach Us About Monkeypox?

What Can Queer Ecology Teach Us About Monkeypox?

What Can Queer Ecology Teach Us About Monkeypox? Gay intersectionista Alex Carr Johnson talks to The Frontline about the latest zoonotic disease and how queer ecological imagination can help us prepare for future viruses.

The Frontline Queer Ecology

Creatures of Possibility

Creatures of Possibility

Creatures of Possibility My transition was a crash course in biology, writes Riley Black. It shifted how I see life on Earth and made me think harder about the boundaries we create and uphold.

Queer Ecology

Redefining Gender in the Amazon

Redefining Gender in the Amazon

Redefining Gender in the Amazon As we celebrate Pride, The Frontline shares the work of Uýra Sodoma, an Indigenous nonbinary performance artist who is dedicated to saving the Brazilian Amazon.

The Frontline Queer Ecology

For Your Pleasure

For Your Pleasure

For Your Pleasure Battling a grim future, the question becomes: how can we understand activism and social engagement not as separate from, but intertwined with pleasure?

The Overview Queer Ecology

Exxon’s Rainbow Smokescreen

Exxon’s Rainbow Smokescreen

Exxon’s Rainbow Smokescreen When June rolls around, oil giant ExxonMobil is quick to parade rainbow flags on social media. In a collaboration with EXXONKNEWS, The Frontline shows the reality its queer workers face year-round.

The Frontline Queer Ecology

Queering the Food System

Queering the Food System

Queering the Food System A new generation of LGBTQIA+ farmers are tending the land through a lens of radical empathy and mutual respect by putting people and planet before profit.

Queer Ecology

True Colors

True Colors

True Colors The journey we take back to ourselves is part of the queer and trans experience—rediscovering, under all the learned shame, our true nature.

The Overview Queer Ecology

Broken From the Colony

Broken From the Colony

Broken From the Colony For Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, a climate-fiction contest from Fix, Grist’s Solutions Lab, Ada M. Patterson conjures a future in which trans women and nonbinary folks find acceptance and security among the coral as the sole survivors of a storm that submerged their Caribbean island.

Queer Ecology

Let’s Talk About Sex

Let’s Talk About Sex

Let’s Talk About Sex For too long, Western ideas about gender and sexuality have been imposed upon the human and nonhuman worlds—when everywhere we look on Earth, we find a diverse array of flora, fauna, and fungi that challenge these notions.

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