Just Sustainability, Episode 7B: Shawn Shafner – Defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse

In the second episode with Shawn Shafner, Shawn and I spoke about defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse.

Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the POOP (The People’s Own Organic Power) Project, the creator and star of several (I would describe as avant garde — I mean he gets folks to do Kegels together in one of his performances) one-person shows, and has created educational programming for more organizations and programs than I could begin to list. He’s also been recognized in a number of really cool ways — for example, CBC Radio One featured him as a “Waste Warrior”, he’s been a LABA fellow, and a LMCC artist in residence.

Links: https://thepoopproject.org/https://poopcast.libsyn.com/https://www.wweek.com/arts/2020/02/19/shawn-shafners-one-man-show-delivers-the-straight-poop-on-sustainable-sanitation/

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