"'The Nettle Meddles': Queer Joy and Settler Belonging on the Salish Sea" by Kaden Jelsing is the fourth post in the Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” series, edited by @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, @tinaadcock.bsky.social, & Sarah York-Bertram
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Nave Nitrof’s film Nettle Fest ’87 celebrates queer punk kinship with nettles, though it unintentionally reproduces settler-colonial erasure of Indigenous histories.
