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Sage Brice (she/her)
@sagebrice.bsky.social
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Artist geographer. Posting mainly drawing, critical geography, queer-trans ecologies, environmental and social justice. Also fungi and hiking pics
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Photo of tall beech trees looming starkly black and russet-leaved against a silvery autumn sky. Young holly trees cluster green around their bases
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Rook hope burn, Weardale, 2 Nov 2025. #Butoh -inspired #improv / #queerecologies practice
A series of photos showing Sage moving/dancing on a grazed hillside in a Northern landscape. The sky behind her is blue, streaked dramatically with pale cloud. She is wearing outdoor gear and a pink bobble hat. She moves clumsily, but with a taught and explosive energy that is its own form of elegance :)
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I will be speaking alongside @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Ed Kiely & @amkanngieser.bsky.social on this panel: ‘A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times’, 13 Nov 2025, 12:00-1:30 GMT

Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times
Event flyer including photos of the four speakers, and a question: What is the role of geography, geographers, and critical geographical scholarship at a time of anti-trans reactionary politics?
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Drawing in progress. Anemone coronaria, Plantae Palestinae 1911
Photo of a drawing in pencil and watercolour, showing dried pressed flowers scattered across a page
October 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Pretty sure we have #theprince #agaricusaugustus - two of them, big as dinner plates and the caps are maggot-free. #cumbria #mushroomforaging #fungi
Photo of a large mushroom with a flecked cap. A pencil is included for scale and indicates the diameter is somewhere above 25cm
October 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Being in the woods is the only thing that seems to make much sense at the moment

#fistulinahepatica #fungi #oak #quercuspetrea
Close-up photo of a beefsteak fungus, Fistulina hepatica, on a mature oak . The shelf-like fungus is strikingly red on top, pale cream below, and shows up starkly against the dark hollow of the tree
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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It feels like a huge achievement to have a graphic format manuscript published as a full peer reviewed article (not a portfolio piece) in a major geography journal. It is my hope the comic strip format prompts a different mode of readership, as well as being great for teaching and wider access
Cover spread for the above linked article, including a drawing of penguins at London Zoo beside a banner that reads: “Some Penguins Are Gay, Get Over It”
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Spent a couple of hours this morning correcting proofs for our book chapter on Mycelial love, then strolled up the end of the garden to find chanterelles and brown birch bolettes for lunch - yum! (*Kate Marston, Rich White and Scarlet Hall are my partners in queer polyvocality)
Chanterelles and brown birch bolettes sautéeing with a little garlic and Cavolo Nero
September 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Out of office
Photograph of a valley in North Wales. In the foreground, a hawthorn tree and slate wall. Pasture slopes down between wooded hillsides, and in the distance is a range of low, jagged peaks
September 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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At the #RGSIBG25? Staying through to the very end? Why not join us to talk about speculative ecologies? TLB seminar room 202 (and online), 16:50 - 18:30
Photo of a sculpture resembling an architectural model. Figures are shown repairing the roof of a house built among rubble. Vegetables grow in a simple polytunnel
August 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Looking forward to co-hosting a double session on Geographies of Trans Creativity this afternoon with Ed Kiely and Ezgi Yilmaz. RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham, 14:40-18:30, Muirhead Building, Room 122
A drawing of two gender-expansive individuals drawing in a living room. There is laundry in one corner and a potted plant. The line drawing is shaded in colours of the trans flag.
August 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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My new studio environs are rather grand…
It’s great to be sharing creative space with some good friends and a short cycle up the hill from my house
Photo of a slightly bare studio space with wooden floor and a large panelled window looking out over trees Photo of an elegant gothic parlour with highly polished wooden table, heraldic stone fireplace and chandeliers Photograph looking out through a panelled window at a small courtyard surrounded by Victorian gothic seminary buildings The front of the college. Our studio window is open, top left.
August 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Lots of beautiful and intriguing mushrooms this weekend. The cep carpaccio is NOT the same species as either of the two mushroom photos, one of which is probably the poisonous caloboletus radicans (lovely blue blush to it) and the other perhaps lurid bolete with an unusual split stem
August 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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More river walking. It’s a blessing to live close to such stunning places
Looki by upstream along the Tees river, just above High Force. The water glimmers silver among black rocks and the banks are a lush green tumble. Moors and heavy cloud loom in the distance Waterfalls on the river Tees, pines glowing in the sun and clouds bright white against deep blue sky
August 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Collaborative walk, starting at sunrise from the source of the Deerness and walking our friends home. Encountered an intermittent flow - perhaps due to line workings and/or drought - and an infinitely changeable river, from plastic bag falls to fish-darting pools to suburban ditch. Very queer :)
Bare legs and sodden shoes, ankle deep in buttercup and watercress (don’t eat it, there might be liver fluke) First steps - a fine cleft but deceptively deep and wet Natural spring, old sluice Beneath alder, between high banks
July 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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It’s that time of the year when editors start to catch up with backlogs, meaning I have quite a silly number of book chapters and articles currently in or near proof stage. It’s hard to stay patient; here’s some Pembrokeshire bog pimpernel for company while I/you wait
A close up of bog pimpernel, with delicate pink wildflowers and small round leaves growing low and spreading on damp, peaty soil
July 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Back in January I had the honour of discussing Aslı Zengin’s powerful and generous book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’.
@geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

I’ve now published a summary of my comments:

doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713
The cover of Zengin’s book
July 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I enjoyed crafting my submission for this compilation, a delightful project and a welcome gesture towards more agile and responsive forms of academic publishing. My contribution took the form of a doctored comic strip… see if you can work out what text is retained from the original!
A digitally altered comic strip showing a conversation between a young man and woman, reflecting rather earnestly on the disciplinary politics of knowledge production. For a PDF version and to see the whole collection visit link in quoted skeet
July 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Friday evening improv session with oak and rowan 💚
Sage improvising movement in a spreading oak Scarlet improvising movement with a rowan Found pink sunglasses on a branch stub
July 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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… ideas about what is native, or natural, or appropriate. And we would focus our closest attention on diversity of relationships 3/3
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How else might #queerecologies #transecologies shape how we think about #conservation, #rewilding, and #habitatrestoration?
Me in my natural habitat?
July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I think the difference would be subtle - a shift in emphasis. The idea of restoring an ideal past before human disruption might be just one model among many that we would use to help us imagine how an ecosystem could thrive. We might be careful not to hold too tightly to- 2/3 (oops)
The flanks of the hills beginning to be cloaked in trees Foraging wild bilberries
July 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Incredible to see these overgrazed, windswept valleys transitioning to forest again under the loving stewardship of #Carrifran Wildwood / @bordersforesttrust. We were reflecting how a project like this might differ with a #queerecology #transecology approach 1/2
One of the old rowans growing in a protected spot among the rocks, a persistent source of food and seed Birch and alder, likely planted, busy with warblers Where the paths peters out among the young trees at the head of the valley The spaciousness makes movement possible
July 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Missing the grounded rhythm and spaciousness of my time in Pembrokeshire. I know it’s partly the magic of being in a new place away from my familiar contexts (a ‘holiday’ glow even if I was actually working). But something about living in closer connection to land and community just makes more sense
Sunset over a silvery bay between steep headlands. A solitary figure stands silhouetted on the shoreline
June 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Timeline cleanser
Photo of Val McDermid and Prof Jo Sharp at Edinburgh Pride march. They are wearing big grins and matching black T shirts that read ‘older dykes for trans rights’ in purple, green and white.
June 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Really enjoying experimenting with queer ecologies to frame exploratory, creative workshops. We started with a meditation on the porous edges of the body, sensing movement beyond, across and between that boundary, then ran with it from there
Four people practicing movement improvisation in a field. There are trees in the background and the sky is turning towards sunset Two people practicing movement improvisation in a field. Their shoulders are touching and their centre of gravity is low to the ground. The light is golden and there are strands of long grass in the foreground Two people practicing movement improvisation in a field. Their cheeks are pressing together and their movement revolves around the point of contact. There are hawthorn trees behind them and the grass glows in evening light
June 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM