Rhianna Searle – Ecosystemic Magazine

4Jun

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Shifting Biomes, Shifting Minds

By Rhianna Searle Our climate changes and our society stagnates. We’ve grown among deciduous forests, but the biomes are shifting. So why aren’t we? Dirt is a derogatory word– don’t you see! How can we elevate the ground we walk on? Get down in it, Go out and touch it: the turtles with scarred red geometry the frozen pond with spider cracks the native oaks, fathers of the forest. This is how you translate dirt into soil. This is how you personify the pie charts. This is how you shift the science into the streets. This is how you peel the world off the page and into action.

Roe the Boat

By Rhianna Searle I learned about autonomyin geography class.Your decision invades my body. Women sailed in the seventiesto uncharted independence.Fifty years later, we pick up the paddles. It’s simple really,you want more babies,more worker beesto pollinate your precious economy. Women become the hive.You translate humans into hexagonsfrom a documentthat was never written for us.We become cartographerswriting our rightsin sharpie on each other’s arms:directions. You slice us down like sunflowerson the verge of blossom. America has a broken sense of belonging. On land that was stolenfrom our Indigenous sisters We...

Monocropped Motherhood

By Rhianna Searle mothers have always been gardeners.Did you know that tomatoes, which love heat,can’t ripen when it’s too hot?Did you know cucumberscan’t bear fruit without bees?Did you know that individualismis a fungus?Did you know we are amonocropping country?Did you know women are degraded,soil.Did you know children are planted in rows?Did you know weirrigate, irrigateand women are flooding? But did you knowwomen could be carbon sinks?Did you know healthy soilis the fabric of our nation?Did you know:women can stitch us togetherwomen are the roots of our society women are the mangroves that protect us from the stormwomen are fertilizer to the economywomen can craft a regenerative world?Did you know parentingcould be like planting athree sisters garden:corn (government...