Queer Ecologies with Teresa Carvalheira + Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, and in order to live in the world around us. Some of the earliest stories we tell ourselves are fairy tales, stories that, while introducing us to magic and fantasy, limit our imagination by situating themselves within patriarchal archetypes.
But a closer examination of these stories—and of this world—reveals interconnected narratives that make up not just a world, but many queer ecologies attempting to co-exist.
We’ve invited writers Teresa Carvalheira and Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes to discuss their recently published texts, focussed on fauna and fairy tales, respectively, to help us locate these ecologies, and to learn from them.
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Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes is a researcher and writer based in Lisbon. Her work focuses on fairy tales, queer retellings, and the cultural afterlives of traditional narratives across literature and media. She is the author of Tales for Fairies, which traces the queer history of fairy-tale retellings from early literary traditions to contemporary digital culture.
Teresa Carvalheira (Évora, 1991) is a Portuguese multidisciplinary designer and upcycler interested in intersectional environmentalism and craftivism. Former Community Manager for Fashion Revolution Portugal, Teresa is now Creative Producer for FASHIONCLASH while engaged in process-based research on the global contamination and transmission of vernacular textile practices. She is the author of Bestiary of Arraiolos, featuring the fauna, flora, folk tales depicted in the enchanting Arraiolos Rugs from the Alentejo region.
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