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A note from the editorial team
We are excited to be involved with this new chapter for EHN, and looking forward to the launch of EHN’s new quarter system with a core team of dedicated individuals! From January until March, we will work to prepare around six essays for publication in the following quarter (April-June). We released a call for pitches on our social media accounts and website, so please let us know if you’re interested in writing for EHN! We are eager to hear new voices, especially of graduate students and early career scholars who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people. We are interested in any and all topics about the environment and we’re devoted to continuing to promote EHN as an honest and authentic space for community-building around the topic of the environment and around life, research, and all sorts of other interests. We are dedicated to fostering the ethos of inclusivity and developing a sense of community and belonging through collaboration.
Thank you for supporting our endeavors!
Anna, Alyssa, Emma, Ramya, and Genie
My environment now: Editor-in-Chief Genie Yoo
Habitat
I am currently in my home office in Lafayette, Indiana. I feel tempted to talk about the view outside my window which is somewhat bleak around this time of year. I admit I do really like the dark beauty of tree silhouettes against the smoky blue of winter skies. I’m from California so there’s always the novelty of extreme seasons and surroundings. Anyway, when I’m working,I prefer bare walls, silence, and bibliophilic clutter—with curtains drawn.
Digging
It’s hard to say what I love right now when exhaustion has seeped into the bones and all of my work-related loves feel slightly burdensome. I’m listening to a song by Marcel Khalifa called “Rita and the Rifle,” based on Mahmoud Darwish’s poem about a woman with honeysuckle eyes. It’s really about memories of forbidden love and there’s a part when Khalifa sings about the distance between the separated couple, between the past and present, as being like a million sparrows and a beautiful idyllic picture. There is the aural evocation of memories and landscapes and the tragedy inherent in a relationship filled with violence and love, darkness and light. It’s hard not to fall in love with this song and to reflect on its historical resonances.
Buds
I’m looking forward to this spring and to my own wedding! I want to be surrounded by hydrangeas, salty water, and crustaceans of all kinds.
If you have ideas for a piece on environmental history or environmental humanities, broadly conceived, please email us at contact@envhistnow.com.