Sierra Magazine: Take the Earth on a Date

Ecosexuality is at once a sexual orientation, environmental activist strategy, and grassroots movement. And, it’s unabashedly queer. Compared to overly earnest, New Agey environmental movements, “it’s more of a punk rock, queer, drag pin-up-girl version of environmental activism."

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the EarthEcosexuality is at once a sexual orientation, environmental activist strategy, and grassroots movement. And, it’s unabashedly queer. Compared to overly earnest, New Agey environmental movements, “it’s more of a punk rock, queer, drag pin-up-girl version of environmental activism,” Sprinkle and Stephens write in their book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position: Earth as Lover, newly released from University of Minnesota Press. At events and performances, fellow ecosexuals bury themselves naked in dirt and skinny-dip in rivers. The signs they carry at protests read “Fuck! Don’t Frack!,” “Composting Is So Hot!,” and “Dirty & Proud.” Since "Green Wedding to the Earth," Sprinkle and Stephen have married the planet in more than a dozen different ways, including a blue wedding to the sky, a purple wedding to mountains, and a black wedding to coal. “We’re kind of wedding whores,” Stephens says.

Full article at Sierra Club.