Getting Dirty: An Eco-Erotic Worldview

About this episode

The episode explores eco-eroticism and its connection to nature through a conversation with ecologist Dr. Melissa K. Nelson.

Have you ever had a relationship with an inanimate object? Or been stirred by the scent of the forest or sound of birds? Are you practicing eco-eroticism and you don’t even know it? In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Melissa K. Nelson, Turtle Mountain Chippewa ecologist, scholar, and author of Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures. Together, we explore ecoerotics—a way of understanding and connecting with the world as kin, not as resource. With laug...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matika Wilbur, Temryss Lane

Guest: Dr. Melissa K. Nelson

Topics covered

• eco-eroticism
• relationships
• Indigenous perspectives
• nature connection
• environmentalism

Keywords

• eco-eroticism
• Indigenous
• nature
• relationships
• environment
• ecology
• oral literatures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Turtle Mountain Chippewa

Books & works: Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures

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