Fern Thompsett was raised in Gubbi Gubbi Country, also known as the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland, Australia, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at Columbia University. Her research explores ways in which people are living according to “anti-civilisation” theories based on environmental, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial critiques of mass agriculture. She lived and worked for a decade in Meanjin, or Brisbane, where she co-founded the Brisbane Free University, co-hosted a community radio show on 4ZZZ fm, and played in several bands. With Richard Hill and Kristen Lyons, she is author of Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good, published by Routledge Press in 2021.