Queerness

Current studies include:

• How are queerness and transness not only qualities of human sex, gender or sexual orientation, but expressions of life’s vital intelligence and capacities for bringing interbeing into form?                                                                                                         

• How do queer and trans experiences sharpen our perceptions of reality in a world where cisheteronormative, patriarchal and racial capitalist violence against all life is presented as necessary or desirable?

• How can queerness be (and how has it been) shared, learned and practiced as a healing art of collective health and resilience?

Queer and trans perspectives on language, space and health bring life’s multiple dimensions, wholeness, complexity and intelligence into focus - offering lenses that, akin with other relational wisdoms, allow us to refuse the monoculture’s distortion of reality. Telling queer stories expands ancestral and emerging maps of how to be good part(ner)s within the infinite movements of living, dying and transformation we belong to, and helps us see the countless, mysterious ways spirit comes into form. These and other ‘queer medicines,’ as we call them, come from and are devoted to loving the unseen, invisible and – in the modern/colonial world – extracted and denied forces of interconnection that sustain life.

Unfortunately, human-centric (especially Eurocentric) understandings of queerness often confine both queer ways of knowing and experiences of living queerly into narrow containers of gender, sex, sexuality and identity. This false separation of the queer from deeper realities of ecological and spiritual life makes interconnectedness invisible, and is therefore a strategy for colonizing reality. It also prevents us from seeing how queerness resonates with and is inseparable from other forms of relational wisdom, including the visible and invisible intelligences of the living land.