The Alice Austen House on Staten Island celebrates the life of the trailblazing photographer Alice Austen, who lived there in the mid-19th and early-20th centuries.
Amid its rolling, verdant grounds and vine-covered porch, there’s also a new initiative in the works: the Queer Ecologies Garden Project.
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Prefer and Victoria Munro, the executive director of the Alice Austen House, aim to celebrate this widespread gender fluidity of the natural world while focusing on plants that are particularly loud and proud in their functions, or are culturally associated with the L.G.B.T.Q.
“It sort of challenges the notion that being queer is a choice,” said Ms. Munro of the project.
Persons:
Alice Austen House, Alice Austen, Austen, there’s, Marisa, Victoria Munro, ”, Munro
Organizations:
Historic Landmark, New
Locations:
Staten, Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, New York City