Description: Maya Weeks is an artist, writer, and geographer from California working on oceans, waste, climate, and gender.
Maya Weeks is an ecological artist and writer focused on marine debris as capital accumulation, climate change, gender, and logistics.
I co-edited, with Melody Jue, a collection of photo essays for the University of California Humanities Research Institute’s Foundry , Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of Form . These photo essays touch on Indigenous land and water management in the face of ongoing colonialism, legacies of militarism in the oceans, feminist friendships, and much more.
Performance and talk on chapter from doctoral research, “Ecotoxicology: The Santa Barbara Channel, the California Current, and Invisible Violences,” connecting oil extraction and feminist political economy on colonized Chumash land. Photo: Maya Weeks.