Neuroqueer Ecologies is all about the value that sensory and other differences bring to understandings of ecosystems. What we notice about different places depends on how our body-mind interacts with those places, and the beings we share them with. Neurodivergence brings value to an exploration of ecosystems (amongst other things) through noticing differently.
Emphasis my own. I love this framing, word, and definition.
As an artist and maker, who believes in the value of embodied approaches to knowing self and place, I’m interested in beavers as makers, as they use their bodies to shape riverine ecosystems. I’m also keen to draw on evidence from a past where people and beavers lived interconnected lives (e.g. through the work of archaeologists such as Bryony Coles), and crucially to learn from indigenous perspectives on multi-species, wetland communities, in an effort to decolonise the way that we relate to and restore our rivers.
URL: https://queerriver.com/2025/04/02/noticing-differently-rivers-bodies-and-beavers/