Image: from Exactitudes https://exactitudes.com/collectie/, Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. “Hipsters - Rotterdam 2008″ 

We chose this image to highlight the different ways members of the same group are all individual with different relationships to themselves and to each other when given a closer look

“Even though I’m sure you’ve heard that “everything is related” in many Indigenous cosomologies, this doesn’t mean there is a cosmic similitude of relations. You are not obligated to all things the same way. Hence there is a need for specificity when talking about relations. 

There can be solidarity without a We. There must be solidarity without a universal We.” 

In addition, the average age of menarche among US girls steadily declined throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and the rates differed markedly among racial and ethnic groups (Polluted Politics? 217) 

I remember starting my menses in elementary school and both my grandmother and mother remarking on how early it was, relative to their own menses start.

The book pictured above is (CU prof) Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother, and it reminded me of the discussion of the body as home/what is home in DiChiro’s piece.

“Getting the courage to ask the “politically incorrect question” to Tracy and C. B. as to whether they thought C. B.’s transgender identity might be connected to endocrine disruption, Ray was surprised when they both nodded yes and immediately mentioned Christine Johnson, a transgender author and administrator of the Web site trans-health.com who has published articles on the issue of the link between endocrine disruptors and the increased numbers of trans people (Johnson 2004).” 

DiChiro, Giovanna. “Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity” in Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Indiana University Press, 2010.

“Shen argues that “toxic pollution creating reproductive disorders affects us all” and that “focusing on the abnormality of intersex frogs rather than on how oppressive political and economic systems such as globalization are creating injustices that affect our self determination and the self determination of all beings, including the frogs!” is a divisive strategy.” 

DiChiro, Giovanna. “Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity” in Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Indiana University Press, 2010.

Rich Von Bieberstein/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images “University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won the women's 500-yard freestyle on Thursday.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/sport/lia-thomas-ncaa-swimming/index.html

“This version of anti-toxics environmentalism, whole professing laudable and progressive goals, mobilizes the knowledge/power politics of normalcy and normativity and reinforces what queer and disability theorists have analyzed as a compulsory social-environmental order based on the dominant regime of what and who are constructed as normal and natural”