Month: September 2025

This FEELed Note was written by our new MA student and community partner Jamie Stevens on behalf of the Ponderosa Education Community. On Aug 27, the first Plant People Gathering hosted by Ponderosa Education Community was a gentle way to ease back into the academic schedule of the fall. Attendees shared introduction stories and the… Continue reading Plant People Gathering

This FEELed Note was written by our visiting artist and researcher Clara Kleininger-Wanik. Wednesday brought together unexpected neighbours in the FEELed lab’s school house: those living around Woodhaven park, who walk it everyday and know its changing (withering) trees, those who work at the FEELed lab, happy to trade their everyday campus office for walking… Continue reading Woodhaven Park’s Multispecies Inhabitants are Thirsty!

A ‘back to school’ message from FEELed Lab Director, Astrida Brat Girl Summer had its day, and Hot Girl Summer does not appeal. (Although a sardine girl summer does sound intriguing.) Forget about the trends; the real question is: was it a Vortex Girl Summer (regardless of your gender) for you, too? I mean… did… Continue reading Did you have a Vortex Girl Summer, too?

All things come to an end – good, bad or indifferent! For example, summer … and Instagram accounts! While the FEELed Lab usually takes a break for the summer, we ended this season off with another Craft-a-strophe! session [ from craft: making, doing + strophe: part of a poem – in other words, where crafting,… Continue reading ::: crafty endings :::

This FEELed Note is part of our occasional series featuring outstanding feelz from undergraduate students. When we think of a dictionary, we tend to envision a collection of words with given definitions that have been widely agreed upon. We think of “universal” understandings or categorizations of a particular something, allowing us to communicate quickly and… Continue reading The Music We Forget is Music

“Goblin Market” (Christina Rosetti), “Mono-n-butyl phthalate (urine) 30.9 ng/mL” (Adam Dickinson), and “Holders” (Rita Wong) This FEELed Note is part of our occasional series featuring outstanding feelz from undergraduate students. Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is an 1862 poem long renowned for its early inklings of feminist thought and queer love between women as solution to… Continue reading A Family Unit of Ecofeminist Poetry