Mariah Hatch’s Reviews > Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature > Status Update

25% of all animal species being some type of beetle is insane

Still think about gay Narnia…pining, even

The swamp in me sees the swamp in you

Googling how the fuck animals are able to grow inside of eggs. Answers unsatisfactory/incomprehensible. Eggs are freaky as shit.

“Queer-informed education: an education that aims to speak plainly abour biology, eliminate shame around the body and bodily functions, teach careful decision-making for relationships and personal health, center consent and autonomy, and foster a practice of mutual care and respect for other types of bodies, orientations, and ways of being.”

“Who am I to resign myself to some abstracted "end of times," when people have been struggling against colonialism and genocide for hundreds of years? To sustain this motivation, I turn back to the word "queer," which summons a spirit of camaraderie and a history of defiance.”