Tag: Ecology
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Future Feminism
Love this video from Antony & The Johnsons, where AnoHni (as she’s known now) does a spoken word piece about the state of the world, feminism and ecology. I’m also a heathen, a witch to some because I didn’t need to be unbaptised, I was never baptised…but she’s right, us queer people are always seen…
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Trophic cascades
Although apparently simplified, and also contested by some, the story of how wolves introduced to Yellowstone is a fascinating one, and a reminder that even the less palatable or human-friendly parts of the ecosystem have a surprising role to play, good and bad. Quite often good since humans have taken them out over a short…
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Penda’s Fen and Owl Service
On 21 March 1974 Penda’s Fen was Play for Today on the BBC, this strange tale of teenage homosexuality, Elgar and the Dream of Gerontius, the Midlands, ecology, the old and new gods, Britain and the last pagan king, Penda (oddly the image above does NOT appear in the film, only in shadow, although the…