Queer Trees with Author & Walking Artist Jonathon Stalls

This June, to celebrate Pride, we are excited to discuss the queerness of trees and nature, and how queer ecology contains the solutions to reversing climate change and living in harmony with our natural environments. We have an inspiring interview with walking artist and pedestrian dignity advocate, artist and author Jonathon Stalls, and we’ll examine the history of the first gay liberationist environmentalist group and how trees were the reason the group was formed.

This week’s episode was written and recorded in Massachusetts on the native lands of the Wabanaki Confederacy, Pennacook, Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), and Pawtucket people, and in New York on the land of the Lenapee tribes, and Denver on the traditional territory of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Peoples. 

Tree Speech is co-written, edited, and produced by Jonathan Zautner and we thank Alight Theatre Guild for their support. 

Jonathon Stalls (he/his🏳️‍🌈) is a Multidisciplinary Walking Artist, who, in 2010, spent 242 days walking across the U.S. and continues to move alongside a wide variety of people and landscapes for days, weeks, or months at a time.

His first book, WALK - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour (North Atlantic Books) was released in August of 2022 and is available nearly everywhere books (+ audiobooks) are sold.

​He also started/co-created Walk2Connect (now a program of America Walks) in 2012, the Pedestrian Dignity project in 2016, and attended the Living School for Action and Contemplation from 2015-2017. He resides in Denver, CO with his husband, Ben.

Jonathon Stall's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intrinsicpaths

Intrinsic Paths website: https://www.intrinsicpaths.com/

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