Pattie Gonia: Honoring the Try, The Queerness of Nature and How Everything is Drag

The Trail Ahead

Quote:

“When I look at nature, queerness is everywhere. The flowers in my backyard cannot pollinate each other without bees. So they're multi-species sexual. They literally have carriers that carry their pollen from flower to flower - that is so queer! The more time I spend out in nature, the more I'm reminded at just how natural I am. And that's really reassuring coming from a kid who was told that they were unnatural.”

- Pattie Gonia (she/her)

Time Stamps:

[4:30] How Wyn Wiley aka Pattiegonia grew up in Nebraska and playing outside

[8:00] How everything is drag, including the idea of Outdoor Drag, aesthetics, and performance

[16:00] The need for inclusivity in the outdoors and extended conversation in access

[19:00] Whiteness, Prilege and Perceived “heirarchies of oppression”

[23:00] “Honoring the Try” and Allyship

[24:30] Sustainable Activism & The Outdoorist Oath

[32:00] Cancel Culture, the brutality of social media & Pattie’s learnings and growth

[45:00] Community Agreements & Freedom the learn in Nature

[47:00] The Queerness of Nature

[50:00] The Pansy Dress and The Reclamation of a Slur

[53:00] Using Humor & Drag Culture

[1:00:00] LGBTQ2S+ Representation and Ongoing Homophobia

[1:06:00] What is giving them hope for the future

[1:14:00] The Debrief: The Approach Film & How Privilege Shifts Over Time & Space

Links:

• ●Pattie Gonia Instagram
• ●Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis by Deepa Iyer
• ●The Outdoorist Oath
• ●Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Ven Diagram to Take Action
• ●The Trail Ahead Podcast Website
• ●Brave Trails LGBTQ Summer Camp Organization
• ●Layel Camargo episode of The Trail Ahead
• ●Rae Wynn-Grant Episode of The Trail Ahead
• ●The Approach Film