Transqueer Ecological Justice Online Workshop Series

Convenors

Emily Jones (Newcastle University)

Iyan Offor (University of Birmingham)

Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews)

In collaboration with:

The Multispecies Collective (at the University of Birmingham)

Workshop Aims

This workshop series will begin to conceptualise and explore the potential of transqueer ecological justice as a capacious theoretical framework borne of trans and queer studies from which to generate new ways of thinking about multispecies planetary crisis, governance, and justice. The goals of the workshop series include:

• bringing together scholars and practitioners from across disciplines and perspectives to collectively advance our thinking and to explore interdisciplinary research on transqueer ecological justice.

• building a global network of scholars and practitioners interested in future research collaborations, both online and in person.

• The possible publication of workshop contributions.

The workshops will entail:

• Individual presentations by contributors that may summarise completed research or creative projects, share research or creative plans, experiment with a new idea, etc.

• Engagement with presented works by discussants and all participants.

• Guided, open discussion on transqueer ecological justice to inform future collaboration and publication.

Programme

COMMUNITY

TUESDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2025, 10.00–11.15 UK

• Pienaar du Plessis (Rhodes University, South Africa): ‘Making love to the world: embodying queer ecosystems in the apocalypse’

• Karolina Heck (Europa Universitat Flensburg/Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany): ‘Blooming in the Heat: Queer Communities in the Climate Crisis –Empirical Considerations for Berlin’

• Arvind Tayenjam (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Akanksha Surana (Vaishnav University): ‘Is India failing her trans population re: climate justice?’

• Lyn Hagan (Newcastle University, UK): ‘Xeno: Exploring the existential entanglement between humans and alien/alienated/alienating forms of life’

• Vanja Hamzić (SOAS, UK): ‘Species-Making, Storytelling, and the Limits of Law: Rethinking Ecological Justice from Proto-Colonial Senegambia’

• Discussant: Kay Lalor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

• Chair: Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews, UK)

ANIMALS

TUESDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2025, 16.00–17.15 UK

• Zane McNeill (independent scholar): ‘Birds Without Borders: Queer Ecologies and Kinship in Appalachia’

• Connor Barnes (George Washington University, USA): ‘Homosexuanimality: A History’

• Sam Skinner (York University, Canada): ‘Queering Animal Law: Beyond Binaries and Dualisms’

• Zoe M Savitsky (York University, Canada): ‘My Other’s Other: Queerness, Othering, Octopi, and Corporate Power’

• Alok Hisarwala Gupta (University of Reading, UK): ‘The Homoxenoerotics of Elephant Crime and Captivity in India’ (co-authored with Naisargi Dave)

• Discussant: Catriona (Cate) Sandilands (York University, Canada)

• Chair: Iyan Offor (University of Birmingham, UK)

NARRATIVE

WEDNESDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2025, 13.00–14.00 UK

• Josie Taylor (University College Dublin, Ireland): ‘Femme and Masc Fossil Fuel Identities: Gender Fluidity as a Mode of Environmental Justice’

• Cedar James Monroe (University College Cork, Ireland): ‘Transqueer Irish folklore readings along the River Lee’

• Sienna Gerhart and Myra J Hird (Queens University, Canada): ‘Queering Waste: The Commodification of Queer Identity and the Disposability of Queer People’

• Emma Foster and Peter Kerr (University of Birmingham, UK): ‘Trans Queer Ecologies: Reimagining vegan advocacy as a radical challenge to capitalist political economy’

• Discussant: Sage Brice (Newbridge Centre, UK)

• Chair: Emily Jones (Newcastle University, UK)

REPARATION

WEDNESDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2025, 15.00–16.30 UK

• Sophie Raehme (Central European University, Austria): ‘Where the Body is Territory: Queer Search Practices and the More-than-Human Dead’

• Zsea Bowmani (University of Toledo, USA): ‘The Kinship Archives: Dispatches from a Reclaimed Future’

• Gray Black (University of St Andrews, UK): ‘Speciesqueer Sensitising: Explorations of Ecotopia within Creature Cultures’

• Ren Loren Britton (Burg Halle University of Art and Design, Germany): ‘Coalition Constellation: Constellating Reparations’

• Discussant: Grietje (River) Baars (SOAS, UK)

• Chair: Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews, UK)

LAW(ISH)

THURSDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2025, 08.00–09.00 UK

• Louisa Dassow (Newcastle University, UK): ‘Queer Oceanic Interconnection: Posthuman feminism at sea with the BBNJ Agreement’

• Paweenwat Thongprasop (University of Auckland, New Zealand): ‘Queering Philosophy of Intellectual Property Law, Plant Genetic Resources, and New Genomic Techniques in Aotearoa New Zealand and Thailand’

• Rob Clucas (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Rebecca Williams (University of Glasgow, UK): ‘“Violent Boundary-Making” of the For Women Scotland cases, and their implications for Social and Environmental Justice’

• Discussant: Dianne Otto (Melbourne University, Australia)

• Chair: Emily Jones (Newcastle University, UK)