TRANS* ECOLOGY CLUB



TRANS* ECOLOGY CLUB
Based in Narrm

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Trans Ecology Club is an independent Naarm/Melbourne-based group that assembles around a curiosity about the more-than human world and its potential for thinking about trans*ness and queer modes of existence. We’ve been organising reading groups, online workshops, social outings and fieldtrips since 2023.

Trans ecology is a a growing field of study that unsettles the human as a dominant force, and allows us to imagine how else to inhabit the spaces between, and departing from dualisms like natural/un-natural, human/animal and organic/inorganic.


Trans Ecology Club meets on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, we acknowledge the deep history and continued care for the land, air and waterways across so-called Australia, from which we all benefit.




VIEW OUR LIBRARY OF READINGS HERE


Recent
2026 MAY; Deep Affiliation and the Work of Listening, Ella Finer

2026 APR; Stillness, Silence, Collapse, Jack Halberstam

2025 NOV; Water, Ellen Van Neerven


2025 OCT; With and for the Multitude:
Cruising a Waterfront with José Esteban Muñoz, Cleo Wölfle Hazard


2025 AUG; Erotic Ocean, Stefanie Hessler

2025 JUL; Towards Crip Ecologies: Cultivating Relational Accountability with the More-than-Human, Jenne Schmidt

And more...



UPCOMING29 JUN; Monthly Reading Group

27 JUL; Monthly Reading Group



PASTSlow Reading Group
Monthly/Ongoing

Fungi Walk with Nevo Zisin
May/June 2026

Summer Snorkel Series
January 2026

Eco Smut Workshop Series
August 2025




WHATS HAPPENING


Fungi Walk with Nevo Zisin
Warrandyte
June and July, 2026

Over a couple field trips we will be gathering to wander/wonder through the forest, learn a little about mushroom foraging and identification while exploring the mycelial threads that weave through the queer world of mushrooms. What do mushrooms have to do with transness? How can they apply to community organising and mutual aid?



Summer Snorkel Series
Rickets Point, Jawbone Marine Reserve
January 2026




Eco-Smut Workshop Series with Zoe De Lucca Legge, Lynx Tironi, and Marelina Hewitt
Online
August-November 2025, continuous

We will be getting into the mud, muck and marshes, playing with eco-smut as a lens for shifting perception and relation with the more-than-human world. Beginning with a conversation to situate ourselves, we will sharing thoughts and questions about what eco-smut might be and what it can do, before feeling out the residue of a leaf curling its tips to the sun, a cave curve opening its mouth, the gush of a stormwater drain, uncontainable...




Slow Reading Group
Wurundjeri Country, and online
Ongoing

Each reading group we move slowly through two texts, one critical, one creative, reading aloud together in turn, pausing for discussion as we go. This is a slow reading group, so there’s no need to prepare ahead of time, and participation is always voluntary. Come as you are: all energy levels and states of being are welcome.





Moss and Mountain excursion with Justine Walsh
Corhanwarrabul (Mount Dandenong)
March, 2025


We explore what it feels like when places, plants, waterways or stones say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to being visited, recorded or gathered, and how we cultivate these attentions and sensitivities in ourselves.




Eco-Somatics with Grey Dear
Soft Studios
February, 2025

   Embodying Islands by Fei Shi
   Gaia Meditations by John Seed and
      Joanna Macy


Attuning to our bodies, both human and planetary via the practice of Eco-somatics. Drawing from somatic research, decolonial eco-philosophy, and ecological arts practices, we will attune to the deep enmeshment of our inner and outer landscapes, moving beyond binary perceptions into the living, slippery webs of interstitial, interspecies, and interrelational forces.





Seaweed Ramble with Lichen Kelp and Christine Rockley
Koort Boork Boork (Williamstown)
January, 2025

This session slips into seaweed ecologies, where we will wade through the shallows, touch, chew and wonder at their inhabitants in the company of Lichen Kelp from the Seaweed Society and Christine Rockley, scientific artist and seaweed expert.