Today! "Rachel Carson, Queer Love, and Environmental Politics"
Lida Maxwell will be discussing her fantastic new book with Isabelle Laurenzi
Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK/8pm CET
“Rachel Carson, Queer Love, and Environmental Politics”
Lida Maxwell in conversation with with Isabelle Laurenzi
After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, legendary environmental thinker Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple Dorothy and Stanley Freeman had a cottage nearby, and the trio quickly became friends. Their extensive and evocative correspondence shows that Dorothy and Rachel did something more: they fell in love. In this event, Lida Maxwell will explore how their love unsettled their heteronormative ideas of bourgeois life, and how this enabled Carson to develop an increasingly critical view of capitalism’s dangerous and loveless exhaustion of both nonhuman nature and human lives alike.
As Maxwell will argue, it was this evolution that set the scene for Carson’s masterpiece, Silent Spring, the legacy of which is to offer us a path toward a more loving use of nature and a transformative political desire that should inform our approach to contemporary environmental crises. You can find out more and register here.
