Heart, Hearth and Earth: on Ecofeminism with P. Mary Viya Porselvi

Wangari Maathai says that “trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil, yet it reaches to the sky, it tells us, in order to aspire, we need to be grounded.” In Week 3 of Re/membering our Rooted Selves, professor, researcher and author P. Mary Vidya Porselvi shares with us a key framework: Heart, Hearth, and the Earth, based on the Tamil word, ‘agam’. Expanding upon this framework, she expresses the interconnection between storytelling, ecology and women, in her culture.