Susan Reid

She/They

Susan Reid is a writer, artist, environmental philosopher, and lawyer who researches multibeing ontologies and justice. She conceived ‘multibeing’ as a conceptual framework and methodology to explore the transitional expressions and conditions of embodied being. Focussing on the ocean, Susan interrogates how extractive and colonial forces implicate multibeing worlds. Her transdisciplinary research engages science and technology studies, feminist environmental humanities, queer and decolonial scholarship, critical legal studies, and art.

Her practice draws on immersive fieldwork observations and creative collaboration with marine and forest communities of all-kind. She co-founded the online archive Extracting the Ocean and is a founding member of the Deep Currents Collective.

Susan was born in what is now known as the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea and has mixed Anglo-Irish-European settler heritage.  When in Australia, she lives and works between the unceded lands of the Eora, Gadigal and Kulin Nations.

Published work includes:

Multibeing Ocean, Ocean Justice: Reckoning with Material Vulnerability, Imagining Justice with the Abyssal Ocean, Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones; the co-edited volume Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive ; and co-authored works such as  Multibeing Drag Rift: Multispecies is a Drag; The Deep Current Collective: An Abyssal Conversation