Which legacies—material, geological, biological, and social—have come to form the Anthropocene? What will the legacy of the Anthropocene be? What lines or connections can be traced through the entangled web of agencies and interactions that characterize the Anthropocene?

In answer to these questions, I had the pleasure of curating a course for the Anthropocene Curriculum. Part of Course 6, titled “Thoroughlines,” my pathway explores domestic practices of care—cooking and cleaning—as a throughline to a better future.

It was a delight to contribute to this project and to pen a key contribution. My essay ”Moths, Flames, and Other Attractions” takes a moth-eaten dress as a starting point for a meditation on eating and care. Weaving together critical food studies, personal anecdote, nonhuman perspectives, and story-telling, it thinks about how modes of consumption connect us with other beings and the planet, as well as to the past and the future.