What does it mean to be ecofeminist? How is the environment intertwined with issues of kinship, home, ecology and nation? How might we enter and make accessible conversations about gender, nature, climate change and other critical environmental issues? Join Esther Vincent, Serina Rahman, nor, and Angelia Poon as they break down what ecofeminism means, what it can look like in practice, and how kinship plays a vital role in shaping a better world.
Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapping discourses of family, home, ecology and nation. For the first time, this collection of ecofeminist essays, published by Ethos Books, focuses on the crafts, minds, bodies and subjectivities of a diverse group of women making kin with the human and non-human world as they navigate their lives.
From ruminations on caregiving, to surreal interspecies encounters, to indigenous ways of knowing, these women writers chart a new path on the map of Singapore’s literary scene, writing urgently about gender, nature, climate change, reciprocity and other critical environmental issues.
In a climate-changed world where vital connections are lost, Making Kin is an essential collection that blurs boundaries between the personal and the political. It is a revolutionary approach towards intersectional environmentalism.
VENUE: Ethos Books (Facebook Live)
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/ethosbooks/
EVENT WEBSITE: Facebook
DATE AND TIME
6 Nov 2021, 11am-12pm