Decolonising The Outdoors is an ongoing interdisciplinary project which aims to dismantle narratives of dominating land and extracting nature, to rebuild relationships with the more-than-human world, and to empower communities by imagining anti-imperial anti-capitalist futures.

Published work

Queer Ecologies: artwork series celebrating the breaking of binaries. Prints available online.

Decolonising The Outdoors zine: print publication exploring food, farming and seed culture with communities in Scotland, commissioned by Glasgow Zine Library. Available online and at select stockists.

Reclaiming The Outdoors: publications in conversation with communities about our connections to the outdoors, commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.

Decolonising Conservation in the UK: online feature and podcast episode exploring white environmentalism for shado magazine.

Events

Places That Built Us (Edinburgh): panel discussion on belonging and environmental justice, for Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair 2025.

Take One Action Film Festival (Glasgow): world café facilitation on colonial land extraction and destruction, curated by Exhale.

Reconnect With Nature (Aviemore): gentle guided walk and creative session, supported by The Cairngorms Trust and Cairngorms National Park Authority, as part of a series of events for BPOC participants.

Nourish (Fife): mindful activities outdoors, programmed by Queer By Nature as part of their Woodland Queers sessions for LGBTQ+ participants.

Diaspora/sunago (Edinburgh): creative workshops exploring how the natural environment affects what Global Majority bodies carry, curated by EAF25.

Book club (online): discussions celebrating writing around the project’s themes, as part of a series of events for BPOC.

Nature and the outdoors (Edinburgh): roundtable discussion exploring imperialist narratives for QTIPOC, programmed by Saffron Cherry.

“a safe space to discuss radical topics which are often too difficult in the mainstream”

• feedback from attendee

Updates on the project are announced in the Decolonising The Outdoors newsletter and on Instagram.