On Mothers and Nature: ASLE 2025 Panel

Panel at ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

To face climate change is, in part, to grapple with a narrowing range of possible futures. Thus, we find that reproduction itself is up for interrogation, reimagination, and revision. This panel explores precisely these shifts in thought by inviting papers that consider environmental crisis through the lens of sex and gender studies. As invoked by the panel’s title, the trope of Mother Nature exemplifies the powerful role that gender has historically played …