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May 8, 2025 37 mins

This one’s for you if you’re an artist, or a scientist or conservationist wanting to communicate in creative ways, and if you love the deep sea, the Great Barrier Reef and Kate Bush 🪸💎


Kirsty Kross is an eco-feminist Australian artist currently based in Oslo, Norway, whose work is about finding ways of connecting diverse groups with issues around the climate crisis, often by embodying a vibrant coral trout. We talk about deep sea mining, mesopotamian deities, which countries are two-tit countries and a seaside collaborative opera performance 📣🪼


You can find Kirsty at her website or on Instagram @kirstykrosss. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.


Deep sea mining links & stories touched on in this ep: 


Greenpeace AU petition to ban deep sea mining ahead of international ISA meeting in July 2025

Pacific Blue petition to ban deep sea mining

Blue Peril short film

New battleground in critical minerals race is on Australia’s doorstep

What We Know About Deep-Sea Mining — and What We Don’t

Analysis of the implications of deep seabed mining for the global biodiversity framework and the sustainable development agenda (WWF report)

Immortal jellyfish!

National Treasure at Woollahra Gallery, Redleaf

The Cult of Atargatis and Transgender Priestesses

Jack Halberstam on Queer Failure, Silly Archives and the Wild


This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.


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