Our world is constantly in flux, but this current period of environmental change is taking place on a larger and faster scale than ever before. My writing aims to serve as field notes from this transitional era I find myself living through. I emphasize documenting lived experience at the scale of the individual rather than attempting to generalize these experiences, valuing how our identities impact the way we interpret landscapes. I explore themes at the intersection of the human and natural worlds, an area which I believe fosters critical inquiry into contemporary culture.
My name is Alex Music, and my pronouns are she/they. I am a queer undergraduate student at Florida State University majoring in Geography and Applied Mathematics. My studies have led me to unexpected experiences; I've conducted climate research in a national laboratory, taught children how add fractions, dabbled in music journalism, and much more. I often feel like a permanent observer, condemned to feel out of place no matter where I wander. Writing gives me an excuse to keep exploring, and a title when I feel I have none, because, well, somebody has to be the biographer of the anthropocene.
