From flowers has blossomed the beginning of humankind In this poetic essay @priyanka.parihar16 shares meditations on flowers and how their origins are tied to the origins of humankind. With the emergence of flowers, the relationship between plants and insects shifted in many cases toward mutualism.
Right now, in front of me, there is a pepper tree that is 60 years old. Its leaves dance in the wind and often reach the window of my studio where I write, almost like a nudge to say, “Hey, I’m here.” Since last week a beige and brown dog has been coming from […]
Armed conflict reshapes the living systems that hold us together. Peace is not only about the absence of war, it is about the presence of a liveable planet. Conflicts intensify the climate crisis through increased military infrastructures, fossil fuel dependencies, and environmental destruction dur
Embracing Radical Intimacy in Environmental Activism Humans’ relationship with the Earth and with non-human life—and, in fact, with each other—is fraught with exploitation on the basis of difference. But do the differences justify our disconnect? When and how is it important to acknowledge di
How to reclaim the sensual self? Pleasure serves an ecological function; it is through the ebbs and flows of desire that nature ensures survival. Our needs, desires, and sensuality all serve a purpose within the web of life. What happens to our sensual self when we are numbed by information, objec
Fiction does not merely shape how we imagine the future – it influences what feels possible, what feels inevitable, and what feels worth fighting for, which is why protopias offer a compelling alternative outlook. There is a newness around 2026 even as we approach the end of March, yet it may feel
To Be Seen Otherwise traces Kali Spitzer’s practice as an act of care, kinship, and reclamation—where photography becomes less about image-making and more about relationships. Rooted in Indigenous, queer, and diasporic lineages, her work resists colonial visual histories while creating space for
We will all be soil again. Rot and decay are part of the natural cycle. Anyone who composts knows this, is intimately familiar with the process of breaking down to return anew. In the midst of grief, Maggie Owsley found comfort in creating the Church of Compost, home of the Worm Choir, a communa
Love is complicated and perhaps even more so when we are faced with the death of someone we love. Grief has a way of reshaping our understanding of the world, leaving us to search for meaning in places we may have once overlooked. In this memoir, Priyanka Singh Parihar shares a deeply personal refl
In their poetry collection You Are Here, Edie Popper challenges key assumptions underpinning the capitalist and anthropocentric systems by which we live—assumptions that encourage unchecked growth, extraction at the expense of the Earth, and false dichotomies between "humans" and "animals", "manma