the ee! : number five



Welcome to the ee! : a space for loving response to zines and art/books. 

 

For our fifth issue, our guest editor Sara Inácio asked our contributors to respond to five zines or art/books with this theme in mind:


Queerness & Multi Species Kinship


José Esteban Muñoz describes Queerness as “not simply a being but a doing for and toward the future,” a rejection of the here and now and an insistence on the potential for another world. Queer ecological thinking paves a path toward a greater openness to the world which moves past constructed norms, imagining new and alternative ways of being. Queerness is creative, continuously growing and adapting to one’s surrounding circumstances. The pieces in this issue each explore multi-species connections found in relationship to non-human beings, especially those that are overlooked, and find themselves at the margins of the human-centered landscape. These pieces are a reflection on parallel existences and persistent survival. We welcome the rats, pigeons, bats and mushed berries…



To read responses from this issue, tap the titles below or choose from the “menu” in the upper righthand corner.

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contents 



a rat
Alexis Gudding responds to rat church by Zooey Kim Conner (2022).

A Squeezed Life
Selena Williams responds to Mushed Bb by Elise Mollie (2024).


Pigeon Peeks: Watching and Understanding
Uttong Zhao responds to A Pocket Guide to Pidgeon Watching by Crow Raughley (2023).

Plato’s Allegory of the Bat
June Thompson responds to Little Brown Leatherwinged Bat Crankie by Storm Welch (2023).

Becoming Myself Again
Elise Bernal responds—with a sequence of drawings—to “until that hole” by sage ua sole (2022).