Queer Ecologies Book Club Reads: What A Fish Looks Like

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Queer Ecologies Book Club Reads: What A Fish Looks Like

Charis has a new book club! Beginning in January, we are excited to bring y'all The Queer Ecologies Book Club with Charis bookseller & environmentalist extraordinaire, Yarrow Koning at the helm! This now a permanent book club! Books for July - October will be announced soon. This group will meet regularly in-person at Charis on the first Thursday of each month at 7pm.
About the book club:Queer Ecologies is an emerging field that illuminates queerness in the natural world. Through a mix of non-fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry, the Queer Ecologies Book Club introduces readers to the queer, non-binary, and downright bizarre beings found all over planet Earth. Simultaneously, we consider what it means to live queerly on and practice care for this rapidly transforming planet we call home. The Queer Ecologies Book Club centers queer, trans, and gender expansive people, ideas, experiences, and ways of being, but is open to all community members. Participants are encouraged to read the month’s book before our gatherings. However, doing so is not required - come as you are, regardless of how much you’ve read! Participants are expected to treat each other with respect in all group conversations and interactions.About our May book:
What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker
What are the stories we need to survive?In ten days, the last spaceship is leaving for a new planet. Some of us will stay on Earth. How do we decide?#TeamEarth. Once upon a time, the oceans were full of fish and the forests dark with brambles. Seb read about it in a book of fairy tales, and memory means hope.#TeamShip. Adaptation means knowing when to walk away. Jay is ready. So their ex, Seb, shows up on the dance floor, T-minus-10. What's the harm in one last dance?What if the stories themselves are evolving?Told in margin notes, posters, letters scrawled on napkins, and six retellings of classic fairy tales, What A Fish Looks Like gathers the stories of a queer community co-creating one another through the strange landscapes of climate change, wondering who is going to love us when there are not, in fact, plenty of fish in the sea.
2026 Books: 

February: Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto
March: Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
April: Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare
May: What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker
June: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
JULY - OCTOBER books coming soon! 

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