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…
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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).