Author: astridaneimanis

This FEELed Note was written by Research Affiliates Manuela Rosso and Tom Letcher-Nicholls. May saw the conclusion of Beyond the Desk, a student-led project co-convened by FEELed Lab members Manuela Rosso and Tom Letcher-Nicholls. We are both incredibly grateful for the support we received in proposing and unfurling this project.   Beyond the Desk specifically… Continue reading Recap: Beyond the Desk

As our SSHRC-funded Partnership Engagement Grant on the Biodiversities of Gender comes to close, we welcomed the Year of the Fire Horse very appropriately – welcoming OG ecosexuals Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens to a Kelowna screening of their ecosexual/environmental film Playing with Fire in tandem with local artist Mariel Belanger and Sierra Belanger’s film… Continue reading Recap: Biodiversities of Gender at the New Leaves Festival

How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change was published earlier this year – a labour of love, community, friendship — and also research! My co-author Jen Mae Hamilton and I, and our friend, collaborator and book illustrator Tessa Zettel, have been very excited to share this new book with friends, colleagues and future… Continue reading How to Weather Together: Book Welcomes (Upcoming May 19 & June 22)

Rebel salt crystals and the irreproducible equilibrium of sacred salt lakes.   This FEELed Note was written by Nina Vroemen, with contributions from Julian Self, as part of ASiR 2026, the FEELed Lab’s pilot Artist-and-Scientist in Residence program.   “What is saltier: human blood or the Ocean?” Indeed, both blood and swell are comprised of… Continue reading IN-SALTED

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab administrator Julia Jung. Thank you so much everyone who joined our 5-year event on March 27th! There were over ~60 people who popped in and out during the day, joined the Keynote event, hosted a workshop or set up a self-led activities. We are so grateful for… Continue reading Celebrating 5 years at the FEELed Lab

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on long-time Woodhaven friend Nancy Holmes, who is now also joining the lab as a community affiliate. I am retired now, but I continue to work on… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Nancy Holmes

This FEELed Note was written by Sierra Lammi, co-facilitator of the Land Healing Circle and Better World Club at Ponderosa Education Community (PEC) – a FEELed Lab community partner. As the plants begin to re emerge for the spring, so do people who care for them. The first Plant People Gathering of 2026 kicked off at the FEELed… Continue reading Re-emerging for the Spring

This FEELed Note was written by Emma Carey, Research Affiliate with the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project, in collaboration with FEEled Lab Director Astrida Neimanis. Now that we wrapped up the FEELed Lab’s Access and Inclusion project, we asked our team members to reflect on what they learned from the… Continue reading Poetic Learnings in Access and Inclusion

This FEELed Note was written by Emma Carey, Research Affiliate with the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project, in collaboration with FEEled Lab Director Astrida Neimanis. Through our access and inclusion project, we searched for best practices on 25 labs’ websites. During this process, it became clear that some labs stood… Continue reading Websites as Welcome Part 2: Access and Inclusion Champions

This FEELed Note was written by Emma Carey, Research Affiliate with the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project, in collaboration with FEEled Lab Director Astrida Neimanis. The main objective of Access and Inclusion in the Environmental Humanities was to learn how to better enact commitments to access and inclusion at the… Continue reading Websites as Welcome Part 1: A Field Scan of Access and Inclusion at Environmental Labs and Centres