Walking Body as Barometer: Trans Ecologies of Gichigami (Lake Superior).

This article focuses on the artistic project *The Weather Report* by Jay Pahre, which explores the interconnections between weather, body, and place through recorded writings and sound fragments influenced by atmospheric conditions on Minong (Isle Royale National Park), a traditional territory of the Grand Portage Ojibwe. The project challenges conventional, linear meteorological reporting by emphasizing weather’s mutable, bodily, and affective dimensions, framing the walking body as a “barometer” that senses and responds to ecological and climatic shifts. The discussion situates Pahre’s work within broader themes of settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, queer ecologies, and transcorporeality, highlighting how walking and weathering practices enact mutual implication between human and more-than-human bodies while resisting normative temporalities and colonial narratives of wilderness. The article also connects these ideas to WalkingLab’s queer walking methodologies, which emphasize ethics, care, and relationality in engaging with place and multispecies environments.