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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn talks with Clare Follmann about her book Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. Find the book wherever you get books from AK Press. live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/b69f...

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Clare Follmann on "Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong"

# Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn talks with Clare Follmann about her book _Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong._ Find the book wherever you get boo...

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I found out that emails people have been sending about my book have been going to spam! If you have tried to email me about my book and I haven’t replied, it is only because it has gone to spam. Please reach out again!

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thrilled to have this piece published in @orionmagazine.bsky.social—a short enumeration on five new terms to use when thinking and speaking about invasive species. orionmagazine.org/article/reco...

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Reconsidering Our Invasive Species Vocabulary with Five Alternate Terms - Orion Magazine

"Remember, invasive species did not come along uninvited."

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Invasive species management has little to do with ecology and everything to do with economics Which is exactly why some introduced species, like 'cattle', are not treated as invasive while anything that harms it is Full ep with @clarefollmann.bsky.social: www.planetcritical.com/clare-follmann/

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 16/06/2026

This Sunday we're hosting "Scapegoat" author Clare Follmann and activist Patty Krawec for a virtual conversation about the the outdated narrative of "invasive species"! Sign up at app.hi.events/event/7245/i... 🌿 @akpress.org @clarefollmann.bsky.social @daanis.ca

A photo of the book held over a bed of poison ivy. The book cover is a light shade of green with illustrations of plants and animals, some of which have been crossed out.

A promotional graphic for Invasive Species and Capitalism, an event hosted by Firestorm on June 21st at 3pm ET. The image features the cover of the book alongside headshots for Clare Follmann and Patty Krawec.

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New podcast interview just dropped! So thrilled and honored to be a guest on Planet Critical with Rachel Donald. Beaming and blushing about this one! @planetcritical.bsky.social www.planetcritical.com/clare-follma...

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The Real Story of "Invasive Species" | Clare Follmann

How certain species became a scapegoat for capitalism

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Had such a great time chatting with Patrick Farnsworth of Last Born in the Wilderness Podcast -- listen below!

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Patrick Farnsworth @lastbornpodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Author @clarefollmann.bsky.social examines the invasive species story, identifying the language used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—often framed in the xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial purity. 🎧 www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cla...

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Scapegoat: The Invasive Species Story, Metaphor, and the War on Nature / Clare Follmann — Last Born In The Wilderness

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong , from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language...

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

“We are producing our reality through the stories we choose to tell and the metaphors that we use to narrate them.”Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the power of metaphor to shape our perception of the world—and references my book—in this @lithub.com.web.brid.gy article. lithub.com/where-physic...

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Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

When I was 16 years old, my beloved college counselor told me that it was a good thing I wanted to be a physicist because I wasn’t much of a writer. We were close—I had her home phone number for em…

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It’s taken a long time and a lot of work to get here. And now that the book is finally published I am very proud and kind of scared, but mostly I am hoping that my book can help inspire a better way of living with the world and one another. At the end of the day, that’s why I wrote it.

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Drawing on environmental science and semiotics, Scapegoat recounts how the use of biased rhetoric and inaccessible language has created support for a popular but misleading war of “native” against “invasive” that does nothing to address the root causes of biodiversity loss: capitalism.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 11/09/2025

In 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘵: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨, Clare Follmann challenges received wisdom on invasive species that distracts from (and even justifies) a far greater threat to biodiversity: the global capitalist system that is destroying our planet. www.akpress.org/scapegoat.html

The cover of Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong by Clare Follman features a crumpled paper with illustrations of a number of different plant and animal species, some of which are crossed out with fluorescent green X's.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 11/09/2025

📢 Introducing: the AK Press Fall 2025 season! These titles will all be releasing between now and the end of March. We've been hard at work on this season and can't wait for you to read these books. You can find them & preorder at: www.akpress.org/forthcoming-...

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

@akpress.org is publishing my book Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. It’s about the ways we are made to blame plants and animals (and people) for the horrors of capitalism, and invites us to reimagine our relationships with nature and each other. On shelves March 3, 2026!

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