"Bleeding Eden" - A Poetry Reading
Major
English – Writing
Submission Type
Oral Presentation
Area of Study or Work
English-Writing
Expected Graduation Date
2023
Location
CNS E103 2.3 Re-Storying: Surprise, Environment, and Self
Start Date
4-15-2023 10:30 AM
End Date
4-15-2023 11:30 AM
Abstract
This reading aims to address multi-layer threats posed against queer existence and against environment. Beginning in summer 2022 as the work of my Eckley endowment, this project is an ongoing multi-form modern poetic sequence, combining confessional and documentary styles, on the topic of queerness and restoration ecology.
The self-endangerment I experience by identifying as transgender in a cis-normative society and the devastation of natural ecosystems are comparable for their proposed treatments: queerness and ecological restoration both depend on and mutually enable community organization. In respect to the interdisciplinary fluidity of environmentalist work and the transformative potential of a queer project, the poetry takes a multi-genre form. While reflecting on and confessing to my interior status of self---considering family and my upbringing as essential to my queerness---I document exterior changes in my personhood and in modern environmental issues. I do this as a student of environmental studies, and as a transgender person receiving gender-affirming testosterone injections.
"Bleeding Eden" - A Poetry Reading
CNS E103 2.3 Re-Storying: Surprise, Environment, and Self
This reading aims to address multi-layer threats posed against queer existence and against environment. Beginning in summer 2022 as the work of my Eckley endowment, this project is an ongoing multi-form modern poetic sequence, combining confessional and documentary styles, on the topic of queerness and restoration ecology.
The self-endangerment I experience by identifying as transgender in a cis-normative society and the devastation of natural ecosystems are comparable for their proposed treatments: queerness and ecological restoration both depend on and mutually enable community organization. In respect to the interdisciplinary fluidity of environmentalist work and the transformative potential of a queer project, the poetry takes a multi-genre form. While reflecting on and confessing to my interior status of self---considering family and my upbringing as essential to my queerness---I document exterior changes in my personhood and in modern environmental issues. I do this as a student of environmental studies, and as a transgender person receiving gender-affirming testosterone injections.