A collage-style image with a baby blue background shows a bunch of pink, light blue, and white magazine cutouts of various animals and plants, including a penguin, swan, fish, lizard, snails and slugs, and a seahorse. Title page reads “Cal Academy’s Queer Ecology Reading List.”
Page titled “Queer Ecology 101” shows a bunch of similar magazine-style cutouts at the bottom of the page, all of which are tinted pink. Text reads: “Queer ecology interrogates how binary thinking influences scientific study and environmentalism. Examples include: Highlighting non-heterosexual, non-cis characteristics in nature; Breaking down human-nature divides; Studying alternative social structures.”
This #TransDayOfVisibility, we’re highlighting our favorite queer ecology reads. These books, essays, and memoirs break down binaries and explore the expansiveness of gender & identity in nature.