The defilement of our planet’s ecosystem is the direct result of humans’ obsession with oil, power, and control. Drilling and extracting resources at the cost of grabbing and exploiting Indigenous lands and colonising and enslaving people has resulted in environmental effects that cross the planet’s environmental boundaries.[1] This colonial control of land is accompanied by systems that are designed to control and subdue people and their behaviour, freedoms, and unsurprisingly, sexuality.

Ecofeminism, as both an intersectional movement and critical theory, is useful for analyzing oppressive hierarchical systems and seeing how they are intertwined. Ecofeminism is an activist movement and literary theory that links the oppression of women and minorities to the oppression of nature. It emerged in the 1970s amidst women from different backgrounds and further developed in academia in the 1990s.[2] Ecofeminism has been queered by a number of researchers in environmental humanities, including Jessica Ison, Catriona Sandilands, Greta Gaard, Joni Seage and Ariel Salleh. These scholars have merged queer ecology and ecological feminism. They discuss the negative impacts of heterosexism and heteronormativity on society and our understanding of the natural world.

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Ecofeminism stands for ecological feminism, and it is a branch of feminism that looks at the connections between the oppression of women and the domination of nature.

In this article, I am to answer basic questions about ecofeminism.

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As an ecofeminist researcher, I always try to intersect the field with other disciplines. In this article, I explore how postgenderism can bring liberatory effects to ecofeminism.