Elvia Wilk’s ecological meditation on toxicity, the body, reproduction, extractive capitalism, erotics, and inter-species immersion “...With our incredibly porous bodies and our mutated ecologies, we can hardly pretend there is a state of unmodified, unpolluted, sober nature in which animals like us could – or should – exist and bear fruit... An extractive capitalist system requires that, like the natural world, bodies become resources, which requires creating boundaries between individuals. Individuals can then be combined into discrete family units, further enclosed micro-economies whose productive labor is extracted and whose reproductive labor is invisibilized... The anus is threatening precisely because it is sexy and productive – even reproductive, if shit is understood as manure from which new life grows... Erotic energy could be made political by being made ecological...”