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In the shape of the day

Anna Phaidra

This collection of illustrations speaks to queer ecological imaginings, each of which are wound up in stories of dream, memory, precarious entanglement, and the funny confluences of shared worlds. From mycelium living rooms, to the secret intimacy of a locket, to the adoration of the dandelion, to the bat that visits the pollen, to the drawing of a curtain, and to the seed pods and saplings each opening and closing to the shape of the day—this series seeks to entwine both the hidden and the seen (or the real and the unreal) into realms of queer speculative thought. Ecology forms the nexus of this lived and imagined space, as its slippery nature reminds us that life occurs in fluid and unfixed forms. Indeed, unfixity has often been the foil to heteronormative ideations of binaries and its attempts to quantify the natural world into a singular story. Queer thought instead gives room to navigate multiplicity as that which plants the seeds for generative, plural, and interspecies navigations of a shared and damaged home.