Posts in Theory Scholarship
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance /157
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance /157

Dr. TallBear and Ayana confront western science’s continued appropriation of Indigenous sexuality, ancestry, and creation while unearthing our universal desires for love and belonging. Let us rekindle more generous and sustaining forms of intimacy that flow beyond the bounds of coupledom, embracing all of our kin alike.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Sexual Body Liberation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildsexuality, intimacy, kinship, decolonization, decolonizing sexuality, decolonizing intimacy, decolonizing family structure, colonial project, biopolitics, genomics, Indigenous erasure, Indigenous appropriation, nonmonogamy, polyamory, monogamy, heteronormativity, nuclear family, technoscience, liberal multiculturalism, more than human kin, caretaking, caregiving, community, Donna Haraway Inspired, Right RelationshipComment
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic /156
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic /156

Ayana and Dr. Max Liboiron explore the notion of plastic as kin, oil and petrochemical subsidies, the body burden of plasticizers, the historical construction of disposability, the appropriation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in academia, the feasibility of recycling, and more.

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More Than Human Kin, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildMicroplastics, plastic pollution, plastic, marine pollution, waste colonialism, anticolonial, decolonize science, feminist methodology, CLEAR, citizen science, Max Liboiron, discard studies, waste, industrial solid waste, municipal solid waste, garbage, recycling, plastisphere, kindship, consumerism, oil subsidies, packaging, disposability, community peer review, scientific protocol, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Waste & ConvenienceComment
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155

Plunging into deep pools of philosophy and imagination, Ayana and Bayo’s conversation winds through dimensions of the new and the ancient: Yoruba mythology, children as guides to bewilderment, the strategy of separation, grieving as ceremony, trickster spirits, and the teachings of failure and brokenness.

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildslowing down, Anthropocene, fugitivity, fugitive spaces, the sacred, entanglement, decolonization, Yoruba mythology, relationality, intergenerational movements, queer negativity, queer failure, embodiment, nonlinearity, deterritorialize, imagination, bewilderment, grieving, mourning, ceremony, trickster spirit, poetry, dying well, allyship, Fred Moten, Karen Barad, Helena Norburg, Jack Halberstam, Stephen Jeninkson, fatherhood, unschooling, modernity, shapeshifting, compost, Donna Haraway Inspired Comments
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change /154
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change /154

Ayana and Kyle discuss Kyle’s body of work on dystopia and fantasy in climate justice, the reproduction of settler structures, Indigenous science, vulnerability discourses, and “decolonizing allyship.” Kyle concludes with the ever present reminder that our work must be rooted in consent, reciprocity, and trust.  

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice Zones, Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory Scholarship, Activism AllyshipFor The WildLine 5, Line 3, Enbridge, Great Lakes, Michigan, Kyle Whyte, allyship, settler colonialism, colonialism, environmental justice, ecological tipping point, relational tipping point, climate justice, climate change, climate science, DAPL, Back Forty Mine, paradigm shiftComment
Dr. SUZANNE PIERRE on Reshaping a Siloed Science /150
Dr. SUZANNE PIERRE on Reshaping a Siloed Science /150

Join Ayana and Dr. Pierre as they oscillate between the importance of nitrogen, building the knowledge commons, the many new entry points that climate change necessitates, and the ways in which we can root ourselves in frameworks inspired by Earth.

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Cultural Strategy, Design+Strategy, Climate Change, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wilddiversity in STEM, racism, science, climate research, STEM, soil, representation, critical ecology, decolonize science, environmental science, climate change policy, feminism, social change, science research, soil science, race gender and class, ecology, Allyship Guide 1Comment
DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble /131
DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble /131

Ayana and Donna’s fascinating conversation this week winds through topics like the reclamation of truth and “situated knowledges,” the importance of mourning with others, the etymology of “Anthropocene,” the place of forgiveness in movement building, and the urgency of making non-natal kin.

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Radical Imagination, Cultural Strategy, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildtheorist, multispecies studies, feminist theory, science and technology, human exceptionalism, hyper individualism, A Cyborg Manifesto, dualisms, technology relationships, technological domination, Donna Haraway Inspired Comments