The days getting shorter again

It’s the end of October and the California poppies are still blooming. This brought me a lot of joy today, although I’m not sure if it’s indicative of something being off with the ecosystem. The climate.

Fall is hurtling.

I’m really looking forward to giving a talk on some of my plastics research on the west coast of Sweden at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute next (!) week. It will be held on Zoom and is free and open to the public; if you’re interested, more details are here.

And I’m excited to be doing a poetry reading at Night Light Poems later next month, on November 20! It’s also on Zoom and free. I’m going to be reading some poems that I think, finally, explicitly integrate my anticolonial ecofeminism and materialist feminism. Merging these two bodies of theory, and using them in a way that I don’t think totally overrides my voice in poetry, has been such a long game, and I’m so happy about how this work is developing.

Pygmy oaks.

Let me know if you want to come to the reading and I’ll forward you the event link when I have it.

I just listened to Hilary Woods for the first time and I am so excited for her album Night CRIÚ to come out on Friday. I cannot stop listening to “Endgames.”

Finally, I’ll leave you with this little acorn. I think it’s a coast live oak, although please correct me if I’m wrong!