8/ @journeysinbtwn closes the article by reflecting on her experience of writing with a landscape and community unsettled by a flood in Cumbria. When the field is also home how might "sharedness" be considered both collective vulnerability and the crafting of meaningful response?
7/ Our uneven shared realities with non-humans are further explored by @olivia_r_mason Attending to the shifting relations between humans and donkeys in Petra, Jordan through differing moments of touch, reveals an entanglement of multispecies relations and Bedouin displacement.
Which delegates of the plant kingdom will gather for COP26? Nettle & Willow, ancient allies & regenerative teachers invite 'Weaving Kin: Practices of Belonging'
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...but accountability and collective care. I am part of the community in which Ian Shaw was also part. I encourage colleagues to listen if you feel able to, amplify the voices of those who have been silenced and talk more openly about what this means and what we do with it.
[cw: sexual harrassment]
It takes huge amounts of strength to share these accounts, to say it out loud, knowing the consequences and the personal cost of it, the likely outcomes. For the same reasons, it takes huge amounts of strength to decide not to share.
I also feel shame. These are the actions of individuals who abuse power and trust, but they do not act alone or in a vacuum. They are part of a community, and when something like this is allowed to happen, the community is unhealthy. This is not about blame...