Decolonising The Outdoors

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.

The project also runs activities and workshops, with more than 200 attendees having engaged in-person and online.

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 screening (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.

🖌️ diaspora/sunago (Edinburgh): creative workshops exploring how the natural environment affects what our bodies carry, as part of EAF25.

📖 Decolonising The Outdoors book club (online): discussions celebrating writing which shares the project's themes, as part of a series of events for BPOC.

👥 nature and the outdoors (Edinburgh): roundtable discussion exploring imperialist narratives, programmed by Saffron Cherry.

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

- feedback from a Decolonising The Outdoors event, 2024

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

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