Community Service

Gardeners. We sustain a garden plot at a local (across the street from our respective houses) community garden.

Radio show hosts for the “Take a Look at What Mother Nature’s Wearing”. Carbondale’s community radio station, WDBX features our weekly two-hour music and commentary show that features indie rock music and commentary about environmental politics.

What We Teach

Women’s Studies 401: Third wave Eco-feminism, Spring 2008.
            The series of past 401 classes have had a specific focus within the third wave (e.g. queer identities in the third wave). This past year, we pushed for the 2008 focus to be on ecofeminism. We will be collaboratively teaching graduating women’s studies minors the history of ecofeminism (second wave tendencies), the politics and practices of ecofeminism, and real world applications for budding ecofeminists to take beyond the halls of academe.

Honors
2008 (March) Featured Activists in Bitch Magazine

2007 Marion Kleinau Theatre Award for Excellence and Achievement

2007 Nominee and International Finalist. “Inconvenient Truths: Green Video Contest” from Treehugger.com.

Performances and Lectures

“The Composters’ Haul the Motherload” Guest Visiting Artists. Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota, October 2007.

“The Composters’ Launch DeComponomics” Conference on Communication and the Environment, Chicago, IL, 2007

“The Composters’ Launch DeComponomics” The Ground Floor Café, Bellville, IL, June 2007

“The Composters’ Launch DeComponomics” Longbranch Coffeehouse, Carbondale, IL, June 2007

“The Composters’ Haul the Motherload” Performers. Petit Jean Performance Festival, Morrilton, AR, 2007

“Meet The Composters.” Performer and lecturer. Dr. Julie Weinert’s graduate seminar: Sustainable Development (GEOG 424). April 2007.

“Meet The Composters’” and “Motherload: Abridged” Performers. Outside the Box Music Festival (“Performance Art”), SIU-C Old Baptist Foundation, 2007.

“The Composters’ Haul the Motherload” Performance Studies and Theatre Division Central States Conference, 2007, Minneapolis, MN, 2007

“Seattle Showdown: A Collaboration Exploring Performances of Protest and Promoting Social Justice.” Performance Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association. Seattle, WA, February 2007.

“Performance Interventions: Interventionist Performance of Social Justice.” Performance Studies Interest Group, WSCA. Seattle, WA, Feb. ‘07

“Composting Action” Video by The Composters, EPIC International Award Nominee from Treehugger.com, 2007

“Guerilla Recycling Project – Sculpture Action” Communication Building, SIU-C (in conjunction with the SIU-C Recycling Program for “Recycle Month”), 2007.

“The Composters’ Decompose Militarization and Globalization: Can We Compost a Nuclear Bomb?” Performer and lecturer. Dr. Lisa Brooten’s graduate seminar: Media, Militarization and Globalization, 2006.

“The Bombs Away Collective Presents: Tributaries of Women’s Herstories and Futures.” Feminist and Women’s Studies Division. National Communication Association Conference. San Antonio, TX, 2006.

“Compost This!” Performers. Dr. Eric Mandat’s Winds of Change: Music and Protest Fall Series, 2006.

“The Composters’ Casserole” Longbranch Coffeehouse, Carbondale, IL, 2006.

“Meet Me in St. Louie” Venus Envy: Celebration of Women and Art, St. Louis, MO, 2006.
 
“A Diamond in the Roughage: The Composters' Untidy Digging for Personal and Political Revolution and Transformation” Performer and panelist. Central States Communication Association Conference. Indianapolis, IN, 2006.

“Composting the Diamond State” Petit Jean Performance Festival, Morrilton, AR, 2006.
 
“The Bombs Away Collective Presents: Tributaries of Women’s Herstories and Futures” Longbranch Coffeehouse, Carbondale, IL, 2006.

“On the Line: Exploring Resistance and Possibility” Co-directors. Marion KleinauTheatre, SIU-C, March 2-4, 2006.

“Bombs Away: A Commemorative Performance of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima Bombings” Performer, organizer and philanthropist.  Longbranch Coffeehouse, Carbondale, IL, 2005.