01 - 9/2
readings, syllabus

02 - 9/9
readings, “Why Mend?” Arounna Khounnorgi from Visible Mending (Quadrille, 2024); Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte, "Kinship" from We are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (New Press, 2022). 

03 - 9/16
readings, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “We Were Maybe Not Going to Save the World, but We Were Going to Save Each Other: How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different than Abled Mutual Aid" from The Future is Disabled; Turner et al, "Living on the Edge: Ecological and Cultural Edges as Sources of Diversity for Social–Ecological Resilience." submit: 1 pg of annotation, submit by email no latter than Sunday of this week, 8 p.m.; practice: running stitch; first cyanotype weather recording.

04 - 9/23

no meeting

05 - 9/30
readings, Sunaura Taylor, “Introduction,” from Disabled Ecologies (2020);  Zoe Todd, “From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin Study.” submit: Self Assessment #1; 1 pg of annotation, submit by email no latter than Sunday of this week, 8 p.m. 

06 - 10/7
readings, Ellen Stroud, “Does Nature Always Matter: Following Dirt Through History” (2003);  submit: 1 pg of annotation, submit by email no latter than Sunday of this week, 8 p.m., bring cyanotype recordings; practice: whip stitch 

07 - 10/14
no meeting

08 - 10/21
readings, excerpts from Disability Rag; submit: 1 pg of annotation, submit by email no latter than Sunday of this week, 8 p.m.

09 -10/28
readings, Sunaura Taylor, “Treating Disabled Ecologies” from Lesson from a Wounded Desert (2020);  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, "Interdependence Is Not Some Giant Living in a Hillside” from The Future is Disabled; submit: Self Assessment #3; 1 pg of annotation, submit by email no latter than Sunday of this week, 8 p.m.; practice: backstitch

10 - 11/4
readings, Julia Watts Belser, “Disability, Climate Change, and Environmental Violence: The Politics of Invisibility and the Horizon of Hope” Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(4); Allison Kafer “Bodies of Nature” ; submit: 1 pg of annotation, submit by email no latter than Sunday of this week, 8 p.m.

11 -11/11 (!)
readings, Stephen Pyne, “Unimaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a Pyrophytel from Burning Bush (University of Washington Press, 2015);”  The Honorable Ron W. Goode, “Restoration”composed by Dahr Jamail from We are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (New Press, 2022);  submit: 1 pg of annotation, submit by email no latter than Sunday of this week, 8 p.m.; practice: backstitch

12 - 11/18
readings, Lauren E. Oakes, “Beginning with Seeds: Restoration in the Wake of Wildfires”; Erica Tom, Good Fire (2021); Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Becoming Earth”;submit: Self Assessment #3; practice: blanket stitch

13 -11/25
no meeting

14 - 12/2
submit: final project presentations