Solaire Denaud (She/They) is a French and Haitian Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature Program of the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research interests focus on occurrences of plant-based diets throughout the African Diaspora and Black environmentalism. More broadly, she is interested in literary conceptions of ecologies and animal ethics in Afro-diasporic literature and their entanglement with postcolonial and anti-racist resistances. Along with her Ph.D. program, Solaire hosts a podcast on Black plant-based diets in French/creole-speaking contexts (i.e., West Africa/Caribbean/Europe) and a blog on the same topic. Additionally, Solaire produces educative resources about neutral/non-binary French and its role in threatening the French colonial project of ‘Francophonie,’ that is, the spreading of the French language and culture in former and current French colonies.