Emmaby Barton Grace

“I began to see that diversity is not only abundant in nature but is its very premise. The beings of our world are bound together by webby agreements predicated on difference.”
― Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

“But while it may feel like a distraction to discuss the way culture informs science, I believe this is precisely how we make our science better, more objective, and more ethical. By naming and examining the forces all around us, we can anticipate how they might seep into our work. If we fail to have these conversations, both on the interpersonal and institutional levels, we are likely to drag bad, biased, unethical, and inaccurate "science" into the future.”
― Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

“What research questions are funded, which papers are accepted for publication, and who is invited to teach courses, speak at conferences, or otherwise conduct science over time becomes science. It's a runaway train. Studies produced by members of esteemed social classes and their institutions will amass citations faster than those from outgroups, if those works are even published. If researchers and their institutions harbor social bias or explicit disdain for certain demographics, the science they produce will often contain evidence of that bias. Eventually, no matter how flawed, these highly cited works may become canon, their authors immortalized in textbooks, and their lessons taught to future generations of scientists. And when a competing idea is introduced-perhaps one that seeks to correct the initial bias—it may be seen as an affront to science itself.”
― Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

“I’m a bundle of too-sharp feelings, tangled into knots, and frustrated beyond reason that I can’t have a normal reaction for once.”
― Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer