Multibeing Drag Rift: Multispecies is a drag

Multibeing Drag Rift

Astrida Neimanis University of British Columbia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7666-8507
Sue Reid University of British Columbia

ocean, multibeing, spoken word performance

Multispecies is a drag. Rather, we propose a multibeing drag rift manifesto as a riff, rift, and drift in the wrack zone.

Astrida Neimanis, University of British Columbia

Astrida Neimanis is a cultural theorist working at the intersection of feminism and environmental change. Her research focuses on bodies, water, and weather, and how they can help us reimagine justice, care, responsibility and relation in the time of climate catastrophe. Her most recent book, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology is a call for humans to examine our relationships to oceans, watersheds, and other aquatic life forms from the perspective of our own primarily watery bodies, and our ecological, poetic, and political connections to other bodies of water. Additional research interests include theories and practice of interdisciplinarity, feminist epistemologies, intersectionality, multispecies justice, and everyday militarisms.
Sue Reid, University of British Columbia

I am a cultural theorist, environmental philosopher, lawyer, and artist whose work explores multibeing ontologies with a focus on human-ocean relations, multibeing justice, and extractivism. My postdoctoral research project at UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Creative Studies is 'Multibeing Seas: Agencies of Resistance and Care'.

I am a co-founder of 'Deep Current Collective', co-founder of the online project, 'Extracting the Ocean' (https://extractingtheocean.org/) and a member of the University of Sydney's Critical Minerals Network, and Sydney Environment Institute.

2025-06-19

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