UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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Still Breathing
Get PDFI am an artifact in this womb of the earth lungs blind to airsearching memories to find my gill
"Resist!: A Grassroots Collection of Stories, Poetry, Photos and Analyses from the Quebec City FTAA Protests and Beyond" by Jen Chang et al.
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Get PDFDecember moon, skim as milk in the afternoon, the blue alluding through like dolorosa
The Badlands of Gender: Excerpts from a Notebook
No full textOn some days I cause what I like to call ‘restroom chaos’.
Early one morning at a conference I stand before a mirror in a university washroom, trying to find the lucidity to present a paper. An old male professor wanders in, cries out “I am so sorry, miss!” and runs out of the room. Unfortunately, having exhausted one of the options available within society’s suspect binary, his panicked brain takes him straight into the “women’s” washroom. I listen to the ensuing shrieking and sigh. Gender in our society is still tightly controlled; “it’s a boy” or “it’s a girl” are still the only two cries to escape a doctor’s lips as we squirm into this confusing world. For those of us who do not fit this model, bathroom politics are a reality of everyday survival, even early in the morning before coffee brings caution
Landscapes of Contradiction in Las Vegas: The Costs of Sustaining Hyperreality
Get PDFLas Vegas, increasingly imploded by the same imagineering principles used by the Walt Disney Company, has come to represent both the commodification of reality and the production of hyperreality. The nature of landscape has been highly commodified. The mature lush palms and specimen trees growing in the casinos’ neon lights create an instant landscape faster than the 6-hour road trip delivery from a Southern California nursery. Inside the casinos and hotels, forests of lush vegetation (made of preserved trees rebuilt of natural materials or handcrafted from silk to steel) reach a climax of artificiality. Nature on the Las Vegas Strip is a 500-year olive tree in Caesar’s Palace or a 60' tall chestnut tree on the promenade of Paris Las Vegas that is native to a naturalist-sculptor’s studio in San Diego prominently listed on the Baron’s 500 Leaders for the Next Century (Naturemaker 2003)
