This is a living list of sources relevant to Queer Botany in theory, fiction, science, design, and arts practices. They are organised by media: articles, books, videos, and websites.
Articles
‘Aeon: A secret sonic walk exploring queer ecology’ (2017) OUTInPerth | LGBTQIA+ News and Culture, 22 September. Available at: <https://www.outinperth.com/aeon-secret-sonic-walk-exploring-queer-ecology/> [Accessed: 24 January 2021].
Ahmed, S. (2006) ‘Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 12(4), pp. 543–574. doi: 10.1215/10642684-2006-002.
Cade Hildreth (2020) 5 Historical Gay Symbols That Shaped Our Community. Available at: <https://cadehildreth.com/historical-gay-symbols/> [Accessed: 24 January 2021].
Chen, G. (2014) ‘Against Ecological Kitsch: Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage Project’, in Oppermann, S. (ed.) New International Voices in Ecocriticism. London, England: Lexington Books (Ecocritical Theory and Practice), pp. 117–129.
CNN, C. H. (2020) How lavender became a symbol of LGBTQ resistance. Available at: <https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lgbtq-lavender-symbolism-pride/index.html> [Accessed: 24 January 2021].
Cruz, M. (2019) ‘Bio-ID (Marcos Cruz, Brenda Parker with Shneel Malik) in exhibition at “La Fabrique du Vivant”, Centre Pompidou, (as part of the series Mutations/Creations 3), Paris France.’ Marcos Cruz Architect. Available at: <http://marcoscruzarchitect.blogspot.com/> [Accessed: 24 January 2021].
Foucault, M. and Miskowiec, J. (1986) ‘Of Other Spaces’, Diacritics, 16(1), p. 22. doi: 10.2307/464648.
Gibson, P. and Gagliano, M. (2017) ‘The Feminist Plant: Changing Relations with the Water Lily’, Ethics and the Environment, 22(2), pp. 125–147.
Griffiths, D. (2015) ‘Queer Theory for Lichens’, UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 19, pp. 36–45. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40249.
Kaishian, P. and Djoulakian, H. (2020) ‘The Science Underground: Mycology as a Queer Discipline’, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 6(2). Available at: https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v6i2.33523.
Morton, T. (2010) ‘Guest Column: Queer Ecology’, PMLA, 125(2), pp. 273–282. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2010.125.2.273.
Parkins, W. (2018) ‘Edward Carpenter’s Queer Ecology of the Everyday’, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 0(26). doi: 10.16995/ntn.803.
Peoples, L. (2020) ‘At Last, An Entire Institute For Queer Ecology’, Atmos, 05 January. Available at: <https://atmos.earth/queer-ecology-institute-interview/> [Accessed 27 June 2021].
‘Plant Story—Hyacinth, Beautiful and Memorable’ (2019) A Wandering Botanist, 31 March. Available at: <http://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2019/03/plant-story-hyacinth-beautiful-and.html> [Accessed: 24 January 2021].
Prager, S. (2020) Four Flowering Plants That Have Been Decidedly Queered, JSTOR Daily. Available at: <https://daily.jstor.org/four-flowering-plants-decidedly-queered/> [Accessed: 12 June 2020).
Rammer, A. and James, A. (2017) ‘The Pink Triangle: From Shame to Pride’, The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Available at: <https://www.thecjm.org/learn_resources/305> [Accessed: 25 January 2021].
Sandilands, C. (2017) ‘Fear of a Queer Plant?’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 23(3), pp. 419–429. doi: 10.1215/10642684-3818477.
Books & Magazines
Bagemihl, B. (1999) Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Butler, J. (2010) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. 2nd edn. Routledge Classics.
Campbell, A. (2019) Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal.
Carpenter, E. (1896) Loves Coming of Age. Manchester, England: Labour Press.
Dimitrova, E (ed) Mal (2019), No. 3, Plant Sex. Published in collaboration with Serpentine Galleries. Available at: <https://maljournal.com/3/plantsex> [Accessed: December 2022].
Foucault, M. (1978) The History of Sexuality. Vol. 1. Translated by R. Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books.
Halberstam, J. (2011) The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Halberstam, J. (2020) Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Haraway, D. J. (2016) Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press (Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices).
Hebel, D. E. (2014) Building from Waste: Recovered Materials in Architecture and Construction. Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Available at: <http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ual/detail.action?docID=1787136> [Accessed: May 16, 2020].
Huysmans, J.-K. (1959) Against Nature. Edited by E. V. Rieu. Translated by R. Baldick. Great Britain: Penguin Books Ltd (The Penguin Classics).
Interlocking Roots (2019) Perfect Flowers: A Queer Botany Zine. Available at <https://interlockingroots.wordpress.com/resources/> [Accessed: January 2021].
Johnson, E.P. (ed.) (2016) No tea, no shade: new writings in Black queer studies. Durham: Duke University Press.
Kimmerer, R.W. (2003) Gathering moss: a natural and cultural history of mosses. 1st ed. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
Kimmerer, R.W. (2013) Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants. 1st ed. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.
Le Guin, U. K. et al. (2019) The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. UK: Ignota.
Marder, M. (2013) Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. New York: Columbia University Press.
Massey, D. (2001) Space, Place, and Gender. 3rd edn. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Mortimer-Sandilands, C. and Erickson, B. (eds) (2010) Queer ecologies: sex, nature, politics, desire. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press.
Morton, T. (2018) Being Ecological. Great Britain: Penguin Books (Pelican, 17).
Mitchell, L. and Asta, N. (2019) The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions. Nightboat Books.
Papanek, V. (2006) Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.
Reti, I. and Chase, V.J. (eds) (1994) Garden variety dykes: lesbian traditions in gardening. Santa Cruz, CA: HerBooks.
Roughgarden, J. (2013) Evolutions Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People. Tenth Anniversary Edition. London, England: University of California Press.
Seymour, N. (2013) Strange natures: futurity, empathy, and the queer ecological imagination. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Shea, A. (2012) Designing for social change: strategies for community-based graphic design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press (Design briefs).
videos
Dempsey, S. and Milan, L. (2016) Lesbian National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature. Available at: <https://vimeo.com/132492078> [Accessed: 26 April 2020].
La Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau (2016) Cate Sandilands | Storying Climate Change: Narrative, Imagination, Justice, Resilience. Available at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzUrJLPR-TI&list=PLDzgcPOOIjf0f1sEjkLi9Y__syJ7jF5UQ&index=18> [Accessed: January 2020]
New York Botanical Garden (2020) Queering Botanical Science: A Discussion in Celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INWLzfkMCEU&list=PLDzgcPOOIjf0f1sEjkLi9Y__syJ7jF5UQ&index=52> [Accessed: 15 November 2021]
Topic (2019) Birding with The Feminist Bird Club | Birds of North America. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thy7svpWp6c> [Accessed: 24 May 2020].
The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2020) Jack Halberstam Wild Things: An Aesthetics of Bewilderment. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5CmrzTqw4&list=PLDzgcPOOIjf0f1sEjkLi9Y__syJ7jF5UQ&index=71&t=2106s> [Accessed: 20 July 2022].
websites
Adams, M. (2019) Feminist bird club, Molly Adams. Available at: <https://molly-adams.com/feminist-bird-club> [Accessed: 24 May 2020].
The Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Available at <https://queerecology.org> [Accessed: 26 June 2020].
The Institute for Postnatal Studies (2020). Available at <https://www.instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org> [Accesed: 22 September 2022].