Really super piece . . . 🌈🐘

'Like elephants moving through a broken-up forest, many queer people grow up in communities where acceptance comes in patches: open with a few people, guarded with most.'

news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/10/14/f... #queer #ecology #queerecology @climate.columbia.edu

"The formation of Jacob Riis Park by the hands of tides and humans alike is marked by crests and troughs as waves of public investment and collective community maintenance advance and recede." - Tim (Teal) Nottage

niche-canada.org/2024/08/08/u...

#envhist #parkhistory #queerecology #NYC

“We know there’s not one way/One light, one stupid truth/Don’t fit your definitions/Won’t meet yr demands/Not into win-lose reality/Won’t fit in with your plans.” - Bikini Kill

niche-canada.org/2026/06/15/n...

#envhist #queerecology #queerhistory #musichistory

"In choosing this idyllic life, Maurice and Alec prioritise real and simple joys over worldly and material comforts, thus stealing their metaphorical apricots." - Chetana Gavini

niche-canada.org/2026/06/25/t...

#envhist #envhum #queerlit #queerecology #queerjoy #literature

Poetry, prose, visual art, and creative practice exploring what creepiness can generate in flesh, fluid, suture, and scar.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

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🎨 Making Creepiness: Creative Contributions

Featuring work by @kmeehan.bsky.social, Damianos Nikolaou, Faris Al-Ali, L E Ludtke, @jmmc.bsky.social, & Ollie Musson

What happens when we make creepiness?

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Part memoir. Part archive. Part autotheory.

What happens when your creepy archive begins to read you before you can read yourself?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory

👯‍♀️ Creep-onomies: On Creepy Play and the Creepy Reveal

Laura E. Ludtke

“I was a creepy child.”

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory #ArchiveStudies

.... R. L. Stevenson alongside contemporary ecological and ethnonationalist politics.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

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⛰️ Lost on a Dark Mountain: Communal Misanthropy on the Untrodden Ways

Lara Choksey

How and when does hostility become belonging? What happens when ecological longing gives way to communal misanthropy?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

📣 New Podcast! "“Queering Prehistory” with S. K. Marley" on @Spreaker #archaeology #bronzeage #goddolly #headdress #ironage #nonbinaryhistory #nonbinarynature #prehistoric #prehistory #queerecology #queerhistory #queeringprehistory #queerlandscape #queernature #queerwalking #transecology

Parkin's ecopoetic exploration of mimicry, birdsong, and queerness asks what it means to creep after another voice.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

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🐦 Creeping After: Jays, Gays, and Copycats

Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social

What happens when a poet “Awakens as Jayself” or makes “acorns from spores”?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #EcoPoetry #TechnoCreep #AfterPoems

For Rose, Charlotte Mew's poetry becomes a site for thinking about bodily entanglement, spillage, and modernist creepiness.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

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🩸 ‘“Crimson haunts you everywhere’: Spilling Blood and Unsettling Bodies in Charlotte Mew’s Poetry”

Madeleine Rose @madeleinerose.bsky.social

When blood spills, seeps, and stains, it refuses the body’s containment.

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

🌿 Hidden Messages

Immy Smith (@lycomorpha.bsky.social)

“When you go into the woods today, you’re in for a creaturely surprise.” Forests, lichens, camouflage, mimicry.

N.b., Immy’s work doubles as our cover image!

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

For Phillips, quicksilver becomes the medium through which creepy motion and unstable perception become thinkable.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

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☿ Woolfian Quicksilver

Joshua Phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social

“The moment runs like quicksilver…” What happens when perception itself refuses to stand still?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

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#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #TransModernism

A Snake's Head. A Sullen Lady. A Leper's Bell. What is so unsettling about the fritillary – a flower where gender, ecology, and creepiness converge?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #TransModernism #QueerEcology