Tidal Returns in the Colonial Anthropocene

• In Event: Decolonial Queer and Trans Ecologies Part I (HYBRID)

Abstract

I explore the work of queer ecological reading in relation to filmic and artistic practice, specifically in conversation with Sky Hopinka’s Malina: Towards the Ocean. What are the subjectless forms of decolonial critique brought forward through the metanyms of resurgence that lend themselves to cuir perspectives? What forms of writing and filmmaking emerge that move out of the monocultural divide and into the depths of the inhuman, more than human horizon? The portal, the murmur of the river, the crashing of the Pacific waves, the speaking of the waterfall are all part of the sound and visual scape of life and death in the Chinookan myth and ontology the film explores. How does the land and sea tell these stories in non-binary ways?

Author

• Macarena Gómez-Barris, Brown University