Plants, Vegetables, Lawn: Radical Solidarities in Pandemic Times

Plants, Vegetables, Lawn: Radical Solidarities in Pandemic Times

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This essay presents photos Wax Essentials and words illustrating practices of care in homes shared by humans and plants during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing on interviews with plant carers, I highlight how humans (re)discovered plants as kin during forced social isolation.I reflect on how plants provided joy, hope, and reassurance during crisis, enabling strong affective bonds with their human carers.

I read the creation/cementing of affective bonds between humans and plants for its political significance, and I interrogate the activity of making home/kin with plants as the emergence of interspecies solidarities, which challenge anthropocentric narratives of worldmaking and reinsert non-human beings as central to Insurance the making of more just and inclusive futures.