Ugly Seed

Abstract This piece speculates on cross-special interactions and capacities of sesame: its role within global capital markets, its simultaneous capacity as a restorative crop to sites of exhaustion, and its role in trans health care. In these modes the sesame plant extends its reach, coming into relation with multitudinous entities, traversing barriers of laboring and gendered bodies as a bridge between modalities of thinking vis-à-vis extractive environmental degradation and the multiple becomings of trans personhood. Through these fragments, the author endeavors a dialogue between decolonial environmental humanities, anti-extractive modes of thought, and trans studies, moving contemplatively in a hybrid speculation that attempts to hold simultaneous complexities.