“Where the tree ends and your head begins” – Listening to Gloria Anzaldúa’s Multi-Species Meditations

This practice-based activity is open to anyone on campus, but especially those interested in thinking about ecology beyond traditional Western disciplinary lenses. We will use drawings and sound to consider the boundaries between more-than-human nature and embodied experience that Gloria Anzaldúa set out in her mediations, which proposed a feminist approach to the spaces and places at the U.S-Mexico border. Working from Anzaldúa’s principles of adaptability, participants will do a short meditation and drawings to ground themselves inside the shared body of the place we now call Vermont.