the smaller eco-system of the self acts on and with the eco-system of the city

the smaller eco-system of the self acts on and with the eco-system of the city:

This was one of my favorite talks at the ecopoetics conference—funny, energizing, stubborn in a great way, etc.

anaturalhistoryofcolours:

“why should i surrender my alterity for greater political action? the activist’s alterity is their political action, yet often the activist’s alterity is suspect, termed a cultural construct. what if this alterity were actually from the inside of the individual. what if the difference was not constructed, but self-imagined?”

-nico peck, imagination as activist tool