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Find us at @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social! A digital magazine and podcast covering environmental and cultural change throughout human history
Madison, WI
Joined February 2017
Today on Edge Effects, scholars share recommended works on environmental activism in art & fiction—exploring aesthetic opposition to precarity or cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives & knowledge. We hope you enjoy them!
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Today on Edge Effects, Laleh Ahmad argues that the solarpunk genre offers imaginable, realistic green futures based on renewable energy and communal self-reliance, rooted in justice and care. 🏢🪴
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Greetings to our Twitter family! Thank you for your dedication these past eight years. We've now migrated to the other app, so will only be posting here for a short while longer. See you on the other side 🦋
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Today on Edge Effects Fieldnotes, a trip to the bathroom sends Henry Hughes on a journey to discover what tiny critters are living in the urinals and what we might learn from them in this era of environmental precarity. 🪰
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Don't forget that Edge Effects has an Instagram account! We've been building it up over the past six months to share excerpts and additional images from each week's piece. We'd love to have you there!
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Today on Edge Effects, Alexis Schmidt examines the historical transition of Change of Air travel from a legitimate medical prescription into a commodified and efficient vacation on the coast—an attitude that persists in vacation narratives to this day. 🏖️
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Still looking for someone to write an essay on the environmental impacts of AI! 👀 If that's you, drop us a pitch.
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🚨🚨🚨We just updated our creative reviews page! If you see a book you'd like to review, message us to get a copy or ARC. Full instructions on how to submit a short pitch to us:
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PLEASE SHARE — Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2025 special series: Companion Species! Anyone is welcome to submit to this series, due February 20, 2025. Read more & apply:
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RT @Scholar_Melinda: This exhibit was supposed to open at the Fowler. These events are a stark reminder to return fire & land keeping to In…
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RT @PublicDomainRev: 🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Im…
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What actually happens at the UN Conference of Parties? Today on Edge Effects, Cody Skahan gives an insider view and wonders how youth environmental activism can persist amidst crackdowns on protest and the ever-present allure of political power. 🔎
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Happy New Gregorian Year to all of our readers! In Edge Effects tradition, here are our editors’ favorite picks from the last year. We hope you enjoy revisiting these pieces or reading/listening to them for the first time. 🎆
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Today on Edge Effects, we worked with the Qingshan Nature School to translate Nate Carlin’s 2022 piece for their patrons in Hangzhou, China, because many of them—especially children—showed a strong interest in such board games available there. 🎲
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Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, Kate Phelps speaks with Sunaura Taylor on her book Disabled Ecologies. Through the contamination of the Tucson aquifer, they discuss the mutual injury of humans and the environment. 🌵
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Today on Edge Effects Fieldnotes, Detroit River Story Lab researcher Talitha Pam investigates the ecocritical function of a visitor notebook placed on Wahnabeezee/Belle Isle, a 982-acre island in the Detroit River. 📓
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This is incredible! And just so happens to fit EE's soon-to-be-announced special series topic for 2025 👀
Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0 and @aansari86. In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences.
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The @NelsonInstitute at @UWMadison is hiring! Check out this and other environmental humanities-adjacent jobs, and circulate to anyone who might be interested:
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Today on Edge Effects, we call attention to harvests and the ever-changing notion of bounty. Steven Haring’s photography illustrates the instabilities of agriculture amid climate uncertainties in California’s Central Valley. 🐄
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Today on Edge Effects, Lucy Sabin shares her creative research on sensing atmospheres with lichens as proxies. What can we learn from lichens about the air we breathe? 🦠
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