What is Toxic Life? A conversation between co-hosts Krista Lynes & Ayesha Vemuri

Toxic Life Podcast by Feminist Media Studio

Episode notes

In this inaugural episode of the Toxic Life Podcast, environmental media scholars Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri ask, What is toxic life? Where do we locate toxicity? How is it unevenly distributed among bodies, places and scales? What is its relation to environmental justice or reparation?

Show Notes:

Françoise Vergès, Making the World Clean (2025)

Olufemi O. Taiwo, Reconsidering Reparations (2021)

Neferti Tadiar, Remaindered Life (2022)Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (2021)

Keywords
environmental mediaclimate crisismedia studiesenvironmental racismpollutionclimate justice