Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series

An Evening with Taylor Brorby - Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

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An Evening with Taylor Brorby - Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

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Taylor Brorby

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An Evening with Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing up Gay in a Fractured Land, 12 October 2022

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Taylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Mesa Refuge, Blue Mountain Center, and the North Dakota Humanities Council.

Taylor’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Orion Magazine, The Arkansas International, Southern Humanities Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and has appeared in numerous anthologies. He is a contributing editor at North American Review and serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press.

Taylor regularly speaks around the country on issues related to extractive economies, queerness, disability, and climate change. He is the Annie Tanner Clark Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.

Publication Type

Video

Inventory Number

10

Publication Date

10-12-2022

Disciplines

Biology | Environmental Sciences

Publisher

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Copyright

©2022 Taylor Brorby

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No restrictions. Open to noncommercial use.

Language

en

An Evening with Taylor Brorby - Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

Lecture Series Title

Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series @ UNI

Lecture Series Description

The Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series will engage the University of Northern Iowa community, providing opportunities throughout the academic year to interact with a dynamic set of visiting speakers focusing on our relationship with the natural world.

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