In 2025 I was a recipient of a Wales, Arts, Health & Wellbeing Network Go & See bursary, which enabled me to attend the Queerness in Natural History Symposium at the Linnean Society. The trip formed part of my MA Arts, Health & Wellbeing research, where I explored the role of queer ecology within an emerging outdoor movement and performance practice.

 

It was inspiring to learn about the many different ways LGBTQIA+ ecologists, historians, curators, and artists are practising and sharing queer ecology across the environmental sector, and to connect with a wonderful community of practitioners all exploring how nature-based spaces, practices and narratives can become more inclusive for queer people, whose voices have long been marginalised in this field.

 

The day offered a vibrant space to imagine futures where queerness is not only acknowledged, but deeply woven into the ways we connect with, care for, and find belonging within the natural world we are all part of.

 

Thanks so much again to WAHWN and Arts Council of Wales for supporting my visit.