Sarah Amsler

Sarah Amsler is a queer white eco-social researcher, writer, poet, educator, editor, relational practitioner and land steward in training. Their work focuses on how binary, hierarchical and extractivist ways of knowing and being shape our minds, bodies and relationships and what it takes to undo them. As a researcher, they study how modern modes of relating separate us from the land, each other, our nonhuman relations and metabolic life itself, and how we care for collective health in this condition. 

As an educator, they work with ontological and affective pedagogies that loosen the grip of the normalized ways we sense, make sense, communicate, bear bodies, organize living and dying together, grieve, love and go on. As a writer, they apprentice with spiritual-political artistries of language and poetry that try to constellate realities pried apart, provide portals to different scales of queer existence, stimulate the senses to widen and synthesize, and transmute dehydrated meaning into more erotic flow. As a relational practitioner, they see de-institutionalizing (re-rooting and re-routing) desire, multiplying intimacies, queering commitment and fortifying human and more-than-human relational ecologies as essential for liveable futures and as art-life practices of cosmological care.

Find them online at https://sarahamsler.com and @ssamsler on Instagram.