Fallow
An in-progress book-length essay, awarded the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Award for the development of urgent writing on health and being human.
In environmental writing, the degraded environment has often been compared to the disabled, or sick, body. Fallow will shift the negative lens of these metaphors, asking how disability can help us understand our environment, and what we can do in the face of climate degradation and loss. This exploration is grounded by the focal point of a disabled body and an auto-ethnographic study of disability, pain, cure, and care. Through applying theories and lived experiences of disability to the environment, Fallow brings into conversation disability justice, environmental philosophy, and a politics of care.