Starters
Lichens live in lithic time; they are slow, transformative processes with vast, abounding implications.
Using “nature” as a teacher allows us to integrate ourselves in the processual aspects of learning and making, and how that affects our identities.
We have never been individuals.
David Griffiths, Queer Theory for Lichens (2015)
The basic unit is the unit of relation.
Donna Haraway, When Species Meet (2003)
All organising is science fiction.
Walidah Imarisha (2015)
Everything intersects and is entangled, and often, the narrative of the anti-speciesist revolution goes hand in hand with the study of anti-racist feminism and decolonial perspectives that can easily be applied to the experience of animals. In the sense that animals are an abused, oppressed, marginalised class like other human marginalised groups.
I firmly believe in being as consistent as possible. And I am not talking about being puritanical or perfect. I am talking about radicality in how we care for others, the attention, the sensitivity, the empathy, the kindness we cultivate while holding on to the anger as the desire to change, the willingness to fight, to resist, and stick through the suffering or the loneliness that comes with this work.
