We are asking: what do conventional views/policy on invasive species illuminate about the (in)capacity for whiteness to assess belonging, threat, purpose, and the role of humans within ecologies?

Conventional language used to mobilize eradication of invasive/alien species evokes xenophobic images of threatening outsiders, aggressive and sexually prolific, with intentions to “sneak” across borders. We do not consider this coincidental or without consequence.

By dis-integrating the tenants of invasion biology, we also seek to disrupt the tenants of whiteness and settler colonialism that proliferate through the stories we tell about the land and our work here.