"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

"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
“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
"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
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#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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#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
⛰️ 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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#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #EcoPoetry #AfterPoem
🐦 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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#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
🩸 ‘“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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#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies
☿ 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
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#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
🌾 Margin or Morass? Reading Binary Trans Ecological Poetics in Vita Sackville-West’s The Land (1926) and ‘Portrait of a Marriage’ (1921)
Jenny Scoones & Laura E. Ludtke @jennyscoones.bsky.social
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #TransModernism #QueerEcology