Sex Ecologies

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Sex Ecologies delves into pleasure, affect, and the erotic's influence within human and more-than-human realms. It advocates for the constructive role of sexuality in ecology and art, aiming to reclaim the sexual from Western erotophobia and heteronormative narratives surrounding nature and reproduction. The artists and writers explore queer ecology through environmental humanities, probing the fluid boundaries between human and nonhuman bodies, the separation of nature and culture, and disciplinary intersections. Featuring newly commissioned texts by writers like Mel Y. Chen and Jack Halberstam, along with influential essays—including an annotated version of Audre Lorde's "The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"—the work showcases images and sketches from a diverse group of artists. This volume merges insights from art, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, gender studies, science, technology, political science, and indigenous studies. Accompanying an exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim, it arises from a collaborative arts-driven research project with the Seed Box environmental humanities collaboratory. Rather than a conclusion, it serves as a seed from transdisciplinary fertilization, advocating for the significance of sex in environmental and social justice. Co-published with Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway) and the Seed Box (Sweden).