Queering…a monstrous word for a monstrous world. To queer anything would be to differ it perhaps. To split it, take it apart and put it back together. That's what Jasmine Isa Qureshi seeks to do. Through her own story, love of natural history and ecology, and the interactions her identity, culture and the people around her have lent her (for now), Jaz seeks to “break” biology. To understand the seams, sources and origins of the ways we think of the squishy and not so squishy cultures we are held within, and to make fickle, and mouldable, the realities that we believe in and often are ignorant to, and to hopefully give those listening a chance to question their own normalities, using a love for bugs and chunks of decolonial theory.

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Jasmine Isa Qureshi (they/she), is a self styled Monster, an interdisciplinary "Queering" ecologist, marine biologist and workshop facilitator, PhDing at the Global Sustainability Institute at ARU - working on "Queering Ecology" and playing with the question of how biology builds our realities.
An activist on trans rights and deconstructive work in conservation and ecology, award winning poet, and Ambassador for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Jasmine is very obsessed with bugs, invertebrates, and things with "too many", or no legs. She keeps biting the hands that feed her, because they offer crumbs most often, and that usually leads to bridges burning that she didn't want to cross anyway. Oh, and she's writing a book.
Bugs 'n' Liberation x

Monkey Business is an exhibition by RTiiiKA that explores the fluid and varied expressions of sex and sexuality found in the animal kingdom. Poly songbirds, intersex moles and sex toy-crazy monkeys — the more we examine animal behaviour, the queerer it becomes.

rtiiika.com/monkey-business

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