Miriam Navarro Prieto
*after Greta Gaard’s Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
But maybe nature isn’t even
a “her” . . . . When nature is feminized
and thereby erotized,
and culture is masculinized*,
the trouble starts, and it’s the bad kind.
When the girl puts on a summer dress:
“she’s asking for it”.
When the soil is “too rich not to steal”:
“she’s asking for it”.
When the non-westernized have (better)
non-reproductive sex and more
than two genders:
“they’re asking for it”.
So stop
the farther occupation of flesh,
of bodies made of earth.
Cut the virile organ
of colonization
before it brings more death
and the death of desire:
compulsory heterosexuality,
the age of the missionary,
with the conqueror “on top.”*
Author: Miriam Navarro Prieto
Miriam Navarro Prieto (she/her), Spanish artist who drifted from performance art to drawing, currently mainly focused on writing poems on autobiography, ecology, gender, queerness . . . . Her first self-published poem collection
Todo está vivo is also available in English as
Everything Is Alive, translated by the author. Her poems in English have been featured in journals like
Capsule Stories and
The Pinch, and her illustrations in
The Winnow. She sends out a monthly bilingual newsletter-podcast on her creative process, with plants trivia and translated literature:
tinyletter.com/miriam-navarro-prieto
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