Recs if you like Bitch: On the Female of the Species...

Nature is Fluid & Interconnected: A perspective blending Queer Theory (challenging norms around gender/sexuality) with Ecology (the study of relationships in nature). Queer ecology questions assumptions that human norms (like heterosexuality or fixed binaries) are the only "natural" way. It invites us to see nature, ourselves, and our relationships with more nuance and complexity.

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) through radical BIPOC, queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, disability ecological perspectives. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

Books with weird, strange, absurd, or just hilarious titles Please comment your own suggestions

Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...

Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹

Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic

Books about feminine power and rage. Inspiring, enraging, validating. Let us rise, my sisters.

Books by female ecologists, biologists, naturalists, environmental activists, and science writers from well-researched nonfiction to reflective memoirs.

(Keywords: science, nature, plants, animals, insects, ecology, climate change, biology, ocean, STEM)

The perfect biology book blends informative science and an interesting writing style. This ideal blend is hard to find and I’m thankful every time. I hope you like these, too!

To getting myself off my jarring Instagram feed, turning the embarrassment at my own naivety into unjudgemental curiosity by taking agency in what I learn about the world (and lowering my anxious resting heart rate); mix of non-fiction and fiction because sometimes novels depict our current world more accurately than a documentary

Nature, wildlife, outdoors and countryside books. Read at your leisure. Mostly non-fiction with a few fiction.

eco-philosophy, ecology, capitalism and how it relates to climate, etc etc with some fiction thrown in there to spice things up.

one of my best friends is a biologist. I am but a curious soul. and we buddy read nature nonfic. 10/10 would rec

For when music just won't cut it and you need a new weird hyperfixation.