Ecotone Body Issue Walks the Talk

“Oh, plastic, scourge of the Anthropocene, shaped into adorable shapes and dyed multifarious colors; plastic, who will be with us forever: it’s easy to forget about you, but when I remember you’re here, I’m annoyed and freaked out all at once.”

The opening line of From the Editor: Material Life by Anna Lena Phillips Bell creates a link between the theme for the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of Ecotone: Body and our cultural abuse of plastics. Taking their own use to task, Ecotone announces with this issue they will no longer be shipping the magazines in ‘polybags,’ and the cover of the publication itself will now be an uncoated stock. Walking the talk!

And the contents of the publication focus on “The Body” including campus-carry laws, Indigenous students, the safety of women’s bodies, queer identity, birth and postpartum depression, and much more.

See a full list of contributors and read partial content here.