A queer person was about to end their life when a talking cockroach confronts them on what “natural” really means and who gets to define it.

Written in the form of a stage play script, Ara’s work managed to convey the essence of queer ecology as originally theorised by Timothy Morton. In the words of their cockroach character, “Gay penguins, lesbian squirrels, bisexual dolphins, sex-changing fishes… all sorts of things are out there. Nature doesn’t have a label for all these things.” Who could say no to a cockroach philosopher?

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Produced by Dania Joedo, narrated by Bonnibel Rambatan

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