The Queers Are Blooming
Exploring the relationship between fostering queer companionship, and tending to a flower bed.
The Queers Are Blooming
sigardens_histbloom_language_of_flowers.pdf | Are.na
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In Victorian culture, flowers were the language of love. Learning the special symbolism of flowers became a popular pastime during the 1800s when each flower was assigned a particular meaning. Feelings that could not be proclaimed publicly could be expressed through flowers.
Determinants of gender in Jack-in-the-pulpit: the influence of plant size and reproductive history - PubMed
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Jack-in-the-pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum, is a perennial forest herb with the ability to change sex.
New on Are.na Editorial ** historian Elaine Ayers (@eayers0) talks with Willa Köerner (@willak) about thinking like moss, reimagining our social order, and reorienting our attention.
This is an extension of our series Ecologies of Entanglement in collaboration with Dark Properties (@dark.properties)
instagram.comPerfect Flowers: Adventures in Nature’s Nonbinary Botany, with a Side of Emily Dickinson
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
"the botanical term for the blossoms of androgynous plants, also known as bisexual plants — plants that contain both the male pollen-producing stamen and the female ovule-producing pistils, and can therefore self-pollinate — is perfect flowers."
Queer Ecology, a type of resistance ecology that has emerged to flip the script on mainstream ecological concepts by examining the relationships between living organisms and their environments through the lens of queer, feminist, and decolonial theory. Just as the indigenous perspective encourages wild imagination, so too does the Institute of Quee... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Dandelions don’t know whether they are a weed or a brilliance. But each seed can create a field of dandelions. We are invited to be that prolific. And to return fertility to the soil around us.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
Ripe with possibility: the queer language of plants - SICB
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“only 7% of plants have separate male and female flowers on the same plant with more than 86% of plants possessing both ‘male’ and ‘female’ parts in the very same flower”
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