A discussion on practices of creative resistance to homonormativity and oppressive politics. We will talk about how to use tools of drag performance, filmmaking and art. And we will explore how irony and humor can be used politically.

A swamp, a dead bird, a tomato. In the discussion we’ll explore the worlds and ecological relations the artists focus on in their films: layered mytho-ecological history of Zamglai wetlands in the North of Ukraine; extinct Dodo’s shattered world and its colonial shadow stretching from Mauritius to continental Europe; and the intimate space of granddaughter-grandmother gardening – growing tomatoes amidst and despite the war. We’ll discuss how moving image might help (re)narrate human-environmental relations, and the importance of paying attention to the living world around us.