{"id":375907,"date":"2018-09-03T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-prof-touts-ecosexuality-as-environmental-activist-strategy\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:57:50","slug":"prison-planet-com-prof-touts-ecosexuality-as-environmental-activist-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-prof-touts-ecosexuality-as-environmental-activist-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Prof touts \u2018ecosexuality\u2019 as \u2018environmental activist strategy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11258\"><b>Campus Reform<\/b><\/a><br \/>August 31, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>A\u00a0St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland professor published a scholarly article exploring how \u201cqueer environmentalism\u201d and \u201cecosexuality\u201d can make environmentalism more appealing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/directory\/faculty-profile\/lauran-whitworth\/\">Lauran Whitworth<\/a> wrote\u00a0\u201c<em>Goodbye Gauley Mountain<\/em>, hello eco-camp: Queer environmentalism in the Anthropocene,\u201d\u00a0a study which seeks to convey the \u201ceffectiveness of queer environmental ethics in the Anthropocene, a word increasingly used to describe the anthropogenic destruction of ecosystems that marks our current geological era.\u201d The academic journal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1464700118788684?journalCode=ftya\"><em>Feminist Theory<\/em><\/a> published the article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do ecosexual encounters with nonhuman nature offer current discussions of environmental ethics?\u201d she asks. \u201cCan ecosexuality\u2019s posthumanist tendencies queer our speciesist modes of belonging and foster an environmentalism that is not foundationally anthropocentric nor steeped in \u2018reproductive futurism\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEcosexuality celebrates the carnal and grotesque, particularly in some of its campiest moments,\u201d Whitworth explains, offering the example that some \u201cwedding performers wear dildos outside their clothing and don costumes that accentuate and exaggerate their genitalia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitworth describes ecosexuality as \u201ca theatrical environmental sensibility I deem eco-camp,\u201d arguing that \u201cecosexuality\u2019s campy ecological ethics and their tragi-comic and parodic tone\u2026provides an alternative to the didacticism and moralism that characterise much contemporary environmentalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since it \u201celicits confusion, scepticism, and squeamishness from audiences,\u201d she elaborates, ecosexuality has \u201cthe potential to disrupt environmental rhetoric per usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitworth defines \u201ceco-camp\u201d as a \u201cmode of florid performance, spectacle, and ostentatious sex-positivity\u201d that looks to explore \u201cnew forms of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/prof-touts-ecosexuality-as-environmental-activist-strategy.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformAugust 31, 2018 A\u00a0St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland professor published a scholarly article exploring how \u201cqueer environmentalism\u201d and \u201cecosexuality\u201d can make environmentalism more appealing. Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professor\u00a0Lauran Whitworth wrote\u00a0\u201cGoodbye Gauley Mountain, hello eco-camp: Queer environmentalism in the Anthropocene,\u201d\u00a0a study which seeks to convey the \u201ceffectiveness of queer environmental ethics in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}