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Intersection Season 2, Ep 12: Assuming the Ecosexual Position w/Beth Stephens for Earth Day
Join us for this thought-provoking conversation with founder Beth Stephens to learn more about ecosexuality for EARTH DAY.
Ecosexuality is a person that finds nature romantic, sensual and sexy.
It is a new sexual identity, much like you might think of pansexual as a newer sexual identity.
An ecosexual is a person who imagines the earth as their lover, and it's a term used in dating that describes a person interested in environmentalism.
For Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, they have used this term ecosexuality within performance art to blur the boundaries between life and art.
Their great love and relationship is something we discuss in this podcast and talking about a new way to queer the environmental movement. I hope you enjoy.
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle founded the ecosexual art movement from their weddings to each other and the earth starting in 2008. Since, then they have written a book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position (University of Minnesota, 2022), and produced two films about their work, Goodbye Gauly Mountain and Water Makes Us Wet, with one on the way, Playing With Fire.
BIO
Elizabeth M. Stephens is a filmmaker, artist, and professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Stephens grew up in the heart of rural West Virginia’s coalfields where she forged deep bonds with the Appalachian Mountains, as well as with miners, labor activists, environmentalists, and other mountaineers.
Stephens earned a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Davis in 2015, systemic settler colonial practices, racism and poverty are deeply intertwined with environmental justice.
She developed and gained administrative approval for a new MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice.
Her first film was Goodbye Gauley Mountain with Annie Sprinkle. The second was Water Makes Us Wet.
Stephens and Sprinkle have screened at Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany and then went on to screen at MoMA, the British Film Institute and the Berlin Festspiele.
In 2021 Stephens was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship with Annie Sprinkle for their new film, Playing with Fire.
Their book is Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press (2022).
See what the Ecosexuals are up to here:
https://sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu/
https://earthlab.ucsc.edu
***CORRECTION, Beth Stephens is from Earth Lab not Eco Lab
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Join us for this thought-provoking conversation with founder Beth Stephens to learn more about ecosexuality for EARTH DAY.
Ecosexuality is a person that finds nature romantic, sensual and sexy.
It is a new sexual identity, much like you might think of pansexual as a newer sexual identity.
An ecosexual is a person who imagines the earth as their lover, and it's a term used in dating that describes a person interested in environmentalism.
For Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, they have used this term ecosexuality within performance art to blur the boundaries between life and art.
Their great love and relationship is something we discuss in this podcast and talking about a new way to queer the environmental movement. I hope you enjoy.
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle founded the ecosexual art movement from their weddings to each other and the earth starting in 2008. Since, then they have written a book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position (University of Minnesota, 2022), and produced two films about their work, Goodbye Gauly Mountain and Water Makes Us Wet, with one on the way, Playing With Fire.
BIO
Elizabeth M. Stephens is a filmmaker, artist, and professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Stephens grew up in the heart of rural West Virginia’s coalfields where she forged deep bonds with the Appalachian Mountains, as well as with miners, labor activists, environmentalists, and other mountaineers.
Stephens earned a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Davis in 2015, systemic settler colonial practices, racism and poverty are deeply intertwined with environmental justice.
She developed and gained administrative approval for a new MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice.
Her first film was Goodbye Gauley Mountain with Annie Sprinkle. The second was Water Makes Us Wet.
Stephens and Sprinkle have screened at Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany and then went on to screen at MoMA, the British Film Institute and the Berlin Festspiele.
In 2021 Stephens was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship with Annie Sprinkle for their new film, Playing with Fire.
Their book is Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press (2022).
See what the Ecosexuals are up to here:
https://sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu/
https://earthlab.ucsc.edu
***CORRECTION, Beth Stephens is from Earth Lab not Eco Lab