this project explores the relationship between gender and livestock care practices. specifically, i’m looking at how women livestock farmers reconcile their role in a traditionally masculine occupation with the carework they’re often raised to do. i’m also especially interested in how these women’s interactions with livestock shape their identities, relationships, and ethics.

through semi-structured interviews, this project is exploring the unique experiences of queer sustainable farmers in the midwest (oh, in, mi, il, and wi), with a particular focus on how embodied work and embodied identities inform one another. this project also explores queer alternatives to relational networks, ecoqueer spiritualities, and queer temporalities.

“playing in the dirt” for contexts blog (2023)