Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy
Dr. Zoe Todd | Academic | Writer | Artist | Fish Philosopher
Speculative Algae I (2019) 
Speculative Algae II 
Speculative Algae III (2020) 
Speculative Critters (2020) 
Transformation Series I (2021) 
Transformation Series II (2021) 
Alberta Fish Series – Arctic Grayling (2021) 
Alberta Fish Series – westslope cutthroat trout (2021) 
Alberta Fish Series – bull trout(2021) 
Alberta Fish Series – brook stickleback (2021) 
Alberta Fish Series – shortjaw cisco (2020) 
fish sovereignty (2022) 
(en)closure — offerings for wayne (2023) Rana sylvatica 
(en)closure: offerings for wayne (2023) Esox lucius 
(en)closure: offerings for wayne (2023) Vulpes vulpes 
Bull Trout (for wayne) 2017 
Trouties I (2022) 
Trouties II (2022) 
Original Fish Friday Series (2015-2018) Sauger (2018) 
Original Fish Friday Series (2015-2018)Lake Trout (2016) 
Original Fish Friday Series (2015-2018) Ness Namew (2016) 
Original Fish Friday Series (2015-2018) Esox lucius (2016) 
Original Fish Friday Series (2015-2018) Larry the Lamprey (2016) 
Original Fish Friday Series (2015-2018) Mullet on a Mullet (2017) 
Dr. Todd’s work featured in FASSinate 2019[image of a hot pink FASSinate magazine featuring a bull trout drawing on the front] 
[a two page print of a colourful jackfish that is green and yellow over a purple, turquoise, and pink background] 
Alberta Fish Series (2021) a deepwater sculpin 
Todd and Kanngieser 2021 
flower series (2022)
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Beyond knowing
My body is in physical pain. The discomfort picked up steam on January 20th and shows no signs of abating. Usually in situations like this I eventually realize that something is ‘stuck’ inside that needs to get out. In this case, it’s a story I need to tell. My late stepfather, Wayne Emerson Roberts, was…
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2023 installation ‘(en)closure: offerings for wayne’
In May 2023, I participated in the Institution of Knowledge exhibit at the FAB Gallery at the University of Alberta. I created a series of artworks that respond to, engage with, three creatures that the person I knew as my step-dad for 27 years, Wayne Emerson Roberts, collected in central Alberta throughout his career as…
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2024 updates – The Bull Trout Show, publications and more
We’ve been busy working away on many projects and I’m excited to share some new and upcoming developments Lorelei Hanson, Janelle Baker, and I published an article about Restor(y)ing Bull Trout in Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene, edited by Wendy Wiseman and Burak Kesgin: https://vernonpress.com/book/1928 We are launching our long-awaited podcast ‘The Bull Trout…
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Respect for autonomy and sovereignty of Indigenous and local peoples, not arbitrary protection targets, a key to protecting global biodiversity
December 1, 2022 By: Zoe Todd In June 2022, officials confirmed that the 15th Committee of All Parties (COP15) for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is meeting to finalize the latest iteration of the Convention this December in Montreal, Canada. It is anticipated that ongoing pressure will be exerted at COP15 to encourage global…
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Home Story
In March, the Center for Humans and Nature published my short essay on relationships to ‘weaponized fossil kin’ in Alberta for their series “What Stories Does the Land Hold?”. You can read the piece here: https://humansandnature.org/home-story/
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