Eco-Feminist Myth-Making with Estés and Blackie

Description

In this online encounter we will explore mythopoetics in a comparative bookwalk/talk of Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Sharon Blackie. Working with Haraway’s provocation:
“It matters which stories tell stories, which concepts think concepts. Mathematically, visually, and narratively, it matters which figures figure figures, which systems systematize systems.” (p. 101)

Additionaldescription

This workshop invites participants into a collaborative inquiry into the role of myth, ecology and feminist theory in shaping our relationships with the more-than-human world and help in/form collective practices of care, kinship, and resistance. Drawing on the feminist ecomythological insights of Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Sharon Blackie, we will explore why we need re/newed myths and how they can offer some candles to help us live and die well together in dark times.
Walking with our fore-mothers in this session, we will consider: What characters, what narratives are we calling on to help us stay with the trouble, right now? What might emerge when we shift from heroic conquest to collective continuing, from linear journeys to cyclical, entangled paths?
Through a diffractive methodology (Barad; Murris & Bozalek), we will read across Estés’ archetypal storytelling and Blackie’s rooted mythic imagination. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis underpin the workshop. I want to frame myth as holding not only stories and to hopefully excavate seeds and invitations for co-creation with diverse kin.

Period	17 Jan 2026
Event title	Nordic Summer University Winter Session 2026: Circle 5: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices with/in a More-than-human World
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International