Queer Ecology and Forest Euphoria: An Epistemological Audit

The text constitutes a critical analysis of queer ecology, focusing on the risk of an emancipatory theory transforming into a new orthodoxy. The author warns against the category error of projecting human social and political identities onto biological processes (e.g., hermaphroditism or sex change in fish). They advocate for the introduction of critical symmetry: theory should not merely negate heteronormativity in science but must be susceptible to falsification. Instead of a metaphysical resolution regarding the 'queerness' of nature, the text proposes treating queer ecology as a research heuristic. The goal should not be the total removal of binarity from biology, but rather the precise determination of where it is an empirical fact and where it is a product of excessive cultural generalization.