This Chapter May Contain: Fats, Oils, and Other Interchangeable Elements of Power

Jayson Porter is an environmental writer and historian who serves as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department and a Black and Indigenous Climate Faculty Fellow in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He specializes in black and Indigenous environmental histories, agricultural and food systems, agrochemicals (especially arsenic-based insecticides),cultural histories of ecology and botany, and environmental histories of revolution, resistance, and land reform. He is an editorial board member of the North American Congress for Latin America (NACLA) and Plant Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Outside of academia, he loves to connect with other black environmental educators, write creative non-fiction stories, and design environmental-literacy curricula for broader audiences of all ages.