by Charlotte GillThe company behind the event won a slice of the Council’s £30,000 Pride fundSouthwark Council funded a “Queer Ecology” event, I can reveal to readers. Taking place last Friday, the “ecology walk and improvisation-based movement session” offered LGBTQI+ people the chance to “pause with plants and local wildlife, uncovering the queer histories embedded in ecologies around us.” “Whilst we practise sensing, feeling and moving as and with these queerly fugitive plant bodies, we will also consider what we might offer in return”, reads the description for Queer Ecology: noticing, feeling, moving, which was hosted by the The Siobhan Davies Dance Company. It generously welcomed “those with intersectional and emerging queer life experiences which may situate them against normative expectations (whether this is through racialisation, disability, class and more).”