ongoing project based on donna haraway’s “staying with the trouble” (2016) discussing inter-species kinship and mourning
species: steller’s jay (fledgling)
location: eugene, or
cause of death: hit window
death date: 7/2/25
species: house sparrow
location: minneapolis, mn
cause of death: domesticated cat
death date: 8/12/23
species: eastern gray squirrel
location: minneapolis, mn
cause of death: electric wire
death date: ~3/21/23
species: golden crowned sparrow
location: eugene, or
cause of death: hit window
death date: 5/30/25
“one way to live and die well as mortal critters in the Cthulucene is to join forces to reconstitute refuges, to make possible partial and robust biological-cultural-political-technological recuperation and re-composition, which must include mourning irreversible losses… there are so many losses already, and there will be many more. renewed generative flourishing cannot grow from myths of immortality or failure to become-with the dead and the extinct” - donna haraway, staying with the trouble, pg. 101
