Un/Nature. Image credit: Nat Walpole
“If nature is unjust, change nature!” – Laboria Cuboniks
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Please email unnaturalreader@gmail.com to join the mailing list. Once a month, the reading materials are sent out to the mailing list and places can be booked by responding to that email. You will then receive an email confirmation when you book your place.
Delve into a universe of gay plants and sapphic seagulls, monstrous mushrooms and bent binaries.
This month, we explore the queer lives of cetaceans, reading extracts from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, Octavia Butler’s novel Wild Seed, and Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl.
Centering queer, feminist, indigenous and decolonial perspectives, we reimagine nature as promiscuous, entangled, co-operative, wilful and revolutionary.
Un/Nature will take the form of a relaxed discussion with some optional reading aloud.
All welcome, whether you’re a fungi friend, tree hugger or feel estranged from any idea of ‘nature’. No prior knowledge of queer ecology is required, just a curious mind and body.
Let us know if you have any access requests or suggestions for future reading. If requested by an attendee, we will ask the group to remain masked.
Please note: this event will be held in person at Glasgow Zine Library as part of the Community Led programme. The Community Led programme supports and platforms events run independently by community groups who use Glasgow Zine Library as a meeting place.
About Un/Nature
Co-organised by two unnatural queers. Nat Walpole (she/her) is a trans femme artist working in small press and painting. Rowan Lear (they/she) is an artist, writer and caretaker of Glasgow Seed Library.
Booking information
Email unnaturalreader@gmail.com to book a place and receive pdf and audio versions of the month’s reading.
Let us know if you have any access requests or suggestions for future reading. If requested by an attendee, we will ask the group to remain masked.
This event is suitable for ages 18+. There will be 12 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, participants will be involved in: whole group discussions, reading aloud, eating/drinking.
This event will take place at the GZL space Albert Road.
You may be asked to wear a mask at this event.
If you have any questions or access requirements, please get in touch with us via glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com
Find out more about access at GZL events and how to make an access request here.
All events will adhere to our safer spaces policy, which you can learn about here
GZL pledges to support The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. As part of this pledge we may participate in strikes called in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. If this event falls on a strike day and is cancelled, we will work with event leaders to reschedule the event asap. Participants will also have the option of receiving an immediate refund for any ticket purchases and travel booked to attend.
How to access the event:
After booking a ticket, you will be sent several reminder emails from Eventbrite leading up to the event. We will also send emails that share any resources that attendees will need access to, including any required materials.
Please email glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com for any queries or issues.
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