It was a pleasure to present on some of my work using feminist methods to tracing plastic pollution on the west coast of Sweden as an extension of corporate power at the University of California, Davis Feminist Research Institute. Many thanks to Dr. Mayra Sánchez Barba and Dr. Sarah McCullough for the invitation.
I am so honored to have been interviewed about my interdisciplinary creative and scholarly practices by Roshan Krishnan on his podcast, the Rift. Roshan and I talked about relationship with place; refusing to choose between critical, political engagement in the world and spending massive amounts of time outside; land back; collaboration; and more. The episode is available (free) to listen to on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank you for having me, Roshan!
I’m deeply pleased to have two poems from my project on coastal rural everyday life and labor published in Rabbit 40: Extinction.
I had the complete and utter privilege of translating the author’s note for Sun City by Tove Jansson, one of my very favorite artists. The novel, out on New York Review Books in their Classics series, is available here.
An article I had the pleasure of co-writing with Dr. Deniss Martinez, about the California Public Domain Allottee Association’s work advocating for public domain allottees’ stewardship of their Native lands, has been published in the Winter 2024/25 issue of News from Native California.
I had the privilege of conversing with Andrew Chater for the afterword to Smith & Taylor Classics' (an imprint of Unnamed Press) publication of Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo. Andrew Chater and I discussed collecting and industrial capitalism; many thanks to him, Allison Miriam Woodnut, Brandon Taylor, and Cassidy Kuhle. The book is available now.
I had the pleasure of giving a keynote talk at the University of California, Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute's Spring 2024 Symposium. My talk was titled "Approaching the Unquantifiable: Creative Feminist Methods at the Water's Edge." Many thanks to Brooke Benson and Tracie Hayes for the invitation!
I am grateful to have had three poems, "spontaneous land trust," "a vulture on every post," and "salt the leeches" published in Space on Space. These are from a project on rural life and labor on the Central Coast of California.
I had the pleasure of reviewing Josie Iselin’s “An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed” (Oregon State University Press, 2023) for Humanties and Social Sciences Net Online. Many thanks to Dr. Daniella McCahey for commissioning me to write this!
I performed a piece on big-wave surfing, gender, and petrochemical imperialism at Place Settings in Los Angeles on January 17, 2024. The event was organized by Anya Ventura and Laura Nelson and reviewed at the Los Angeles Review of Books by Danielle Monique.
I had the absolute pleasure of organizing and reading at a poetry reading at Cruise Control Cambria on November 19, 2023. Thanks to Gabriel Seaver, John Goodhue, Jordan Chesnut, and Kathryn deLancelotti for also reading, and to Charlie Smith for hosting us! Photo courtesy of Charlie Smith.
Jeremy P. Bushnell interviewed me about my music, poetry, archival approaches, and relationship to the ocean for his series The Wednesday Investigations, published on November 8, 2023. Photo courtesy of Kris Daum.
I performed three excerpts from my manuscript Hold Fast at the 2023 Geographic Indigenous Futures Symposium, Geographic Indigenous Futures of the Salish Sea on July 6, 2023. Many thanks to Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles for the invitation!
I co-edited, with Dr. Melody Jue, a collection of photo essays for the University of California Humanities Research Institute’s Foundry, Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of Form. These photo essays touch on Indigenous land and water stewardship in the face of ongoing colonialism, legacies of militarism in the oceans, feminist friendships, and much more.
I gave a performance and talk on a case study from my doctoral research, “Ecotoxicology: The Santa Barbara Channel, the California Current, and Invisible Violences,” connecting oil extraction and feminist political economy on Chumash homelands. Photo: Maya Weeks.
Wind Tide invited me to collaborate with them by contributing vocals to a song on their album Sings. It’s called “Weird Tide.” The gorgeous album came out on Cached Media in November 2022.
I exhibited at Dörren: Det visionära tomrummet/The Door: the visionary void at Vague Research Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden from October 7-30, 2022. A conversation between myself and Dörren/The Door curator Dr. Kajsa G. Eriksson is online on Vague Research Studios’ website.
Essay published in Zócalo Public Square, August 2022.
An excerpt of a poem, “Barnacle,” from Hold Fast, a book of poetry I wrote for my doctoral research, in Paperbark Literary Magazine Issue 03, April 2022.
Album, Tethers, out on Full Spectrum Records, December 2021. Available for purchase on Full Spectrum’s Bandcamp page as both a digital download and a limited edition cassette. Co-produced with Andrew Weathers with cover art by Gretchen Korsmo.
Ph.D. exit seminar on my doctoral dissertation using qualitative and artistic methods, “Death to Disposability: Marine Debris as Violence,” November 2021. Available to view here.
An excerpt from Hold Fast, “Niche Oceanographers,” in Smooth Friend, August 2021.
An excerpt of a poem, “from Purity Subscription,” from Hold Fast, was published in in issue 17 of g u e s t: a journal of guest editors, edited by Melanie Dennis Unrau, June 2021. Available for purchase here.
Reflection on my artistic research in Bodega Bay as a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow at the Bodega Marine Laboratory on the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute’s blog, May 2021.
Excerpt of a poem, “Plastic Martyr,” from Myth of the Garbage Patch in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, August 2020.
Two paintings, “I Have Been Being Demanded To Be Absolutely Tuned In To My Intuition At All Times” and “Adult Lamprey Sighted in San Luis Obispo Creek, Cries ‘Loosen Up’“ in Two If By Sea: A Journal of Water, Volume One, July 2020.
Presentation of excerpt from dissertation chapter, “Death to Disposability: Marine Debris as Violence,” at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute’s Feminist Futures Research Symposium, January 2020. Pictured, from left: myself, Mercedes Villalba, Dr. Anuj Vaidya, and moderator Dr. Clare Cannon. Photo: Dr. Maya Cruz.
Poem from Myth of the Garbage Patch, “Vortex of Light (Ice Memoriam),” in Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond, edited by Dr. Jeff Diamanti and Dr. Imre Szeman, West Virginia University Press, 2019.
Essay, “On Marine Debris as a Form of Gendered Violence,” on the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements blog, February 2017.
Photo essay, “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Late Capitalism's Safe Deposit Box,” in Blind Field Journal, October 2016.
Essay, “Closed Loop Dead Matter: How Trash in the Ocean Is Affecting Our Lives on Land,” in GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine, November 2015.
