Nature can be a site of freedom, and an opportunity to extend our ideas of Transness outside of just humans: what if the ocean is non-binary? What could it mean to relate our genders to elements in nature rather than social norms?

Depression is recognised as ‘a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease’ and has both a complex aetiology and symptomatology. It is often framed as a mental health problem, however, the more we understand the more we uncover its physical symptomology.

Simply saying Black or Indigenous Peoples experience Type 2 Diabetes at a higher rate, leaves room for further racialisation as it could add to the narrative of genetic determinism, which blames a person’s biological make-up for disease rather than considering ecological factors.

A stressor is defined as a novel threatening environmental agent that alters the baseline human biological system in either of two ways: bringing the system to an unstable biological state, or slowing down the system’s internal response so that it cannot reach equilibrium.

In the context of Covid-19, air pollution presents a particularly insidious hazard given that the disease affects respiratory and cardio-vascular systems.

In any given area, there will be people who are suffering greatly from the consequences of air pollution whilst others may not see any consequences. This phenomenon is worth understanding, rather than dismissing it as not statistically significant.