Morgan D. Doherty
Morgan is a writer and maker exploring queer ecology, interspecies craft relationships, and anticapitalist economies. They have lived their entire life at the confluence of their beloved Red Cedar and Grand rivers in Lansing, Michigan, working previously as a public librarian and currently as an advocate for LGBTQIA2S+ youth. They are a founding member of Tender Heart Gardens, where they grow fiber and dye plants alongside other queer and trans growers.
Morgan has been knitting since 2002, inspired by a teenage ambition to boycott sweatshop labor and make all of their own clothes. They never stopped entirely, though the direction of this lifelong project has shifted with age, research, and ethical inquiry. Morgan is now a largely self-taught maker of garments and practical objects, working with plant and animal fibers quite literally from the ground up using only human-powered tools, offering their creations to the community they love and writing about the process.
Morgan's essay, "Fiber and Flesh," was published in Queer Earth Food 3. Their Substack, Bodies of Land, chronicles ongoing experiments in crafting and living queerly.