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Queerness, rivers, neurodiversity and beavers with James Aldridge

Walking and talking about art, water and queerness along a recently flooded area by the River Tone east of Taunton, a fantastic bit of edgeland habitat that is full of life (and litter).

A photo of a flooded section of the River Tone

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Nibblings on branches, whistling calls of teals, egret flybys. None of these did we photograph as we were in Sound mode. But here are a mixture of mine and James’ images (thanks for sharing James)

A photo of a bench with twigs tangled in it
A photo of a flooded section of the River Tone

The path was just about passable though looking like a river itself in places. Indeed the river was embodying our conversation about the ‘de-canalisation’ of thinking that needs to keep reemerging and being nurtured - around what a river is, what a human is. And how we, through practices that decenter the human, can learn from other creatures.

A photo of James Aldridge
A photo of a flooded section of the River Tone

We share a passion for seeing other than human beings as teachers, linking us back through centuries to earlier more braided ways of seeing our place. undefinedundefinedundefinedundefined