"On another, it is a critique of capitalism's ceaseless plundering of nature to generate private prosperity at the expense of humanity, something Carson identified more than 50 years ago, before many of our more recent environmental catastrophes.Perhaps most profoundly, it is an exegesis on how queerness and the wild are deeply intertwined in a way that could lead us out of our current political and social malaise."
"I'm part of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and we were asked to take down our Pride flag, which faced the street. The college administration stated that it was merely enforcing a long-standing policy on avoiding public-facing signage, but it's obvious that the university administration is clearly trying not to antagonize the Trump administration. We have not actually removed the flag, and it has not been taken down."
Rachel Carson maintained a loving relationship with neighbor Dorothy Freeman in Seaport, Maine, alongside her authorship of Silent Spring in 1962. Carson identified capitalism's ceaseless plundering of nature as generating private prosperity at humanity's expense and anticipated many later environmental catastrophes. Queerness and the wild appear deeply intertwined, suggesting pathways out of contemporary political and social malaise. Contemporary campus conditions include research funding losses, an atmosphere of fear, and controversies over public displays such as Pride flags, with administrations citing signage policies while faculty mobilize. Connections to previous work on Chelsea Manning underscore intersections of queer love and ecological thought.
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