Episode Notes

We're back! This week it's all gay frogs, rainbow-shitting unicorns, and glitter bombing with Dr Nicole Seymour, ASSOCIATE professor of English at California State University. In this episode we find out about the funny side of climate change and coin a new term: ecoLOLogy. We chat about the power of irony in addressing the darkest timeline, and learn about queer ecologies and whether or not it's fair to describe glitter as the STD of the craft world. We also discuss the ethics of laughing WITH vegans not AT them, and think about why fascist environmentalism is so hot right now. She is the author of TWO monographs, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013), and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and is currently working a new text for the Bloomsbury 'Object Lesson' series on, you guessed it, GLITTER. Fabulous.

You can follow Nicole @nseymourPHD