Susan Reid

Dr Susan Reid researches multibeing ontologies and human-ocean relationships. She conceived ‘multibeing’ as a conceptual framework and methodology to explore expressions, transitions, and vulnerabilities of embodied being. She interrogates how the forces of extractivist and colonial governance, law, and power impact multibeing ocean worlds. 

Susan’s transdisciplinary research engages feminist environmental humanities, science & technology studies, queer and decolonial scholarship, critical legal studies, and art. Her writing and visual work draws on immersive fieldwork, observations and creative collaboration with coastal and marine 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