Welcome to our website, here we are sharing with you our journey in creating queer, symbiotic communities in Wales and beyond.
Malwen is currently a small group setting up a foundation for land based projects, nurturing a queer ecological and regenerative home for humans and non humans, growing food and habitat, creating resilience through biodiversity and social diversity with an emphasis on creating homes for LGBTQ+ people in Wales.
Malwen, Cymraeg for snail, is a surprising yet powerful and relevant emblem for our queer-eco project. They exhibit behaviour and physiology that can be seen as queer, such as being asexual or hermaphrodites, and are resilient in the face of hostile conditions. Malwod are often misunderstood and demonised by gardeners, in much the same way as queer people have been in our human society. Malwod conjure up a questioning of modern thinking and reveal the neglected and often under-appreciated queer universe we live in.
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