Amanda Zhu is a Chinese environmentalist and multimedia creative based in California.

They are deeply inspired by elements of ecology and humanity — land, memory, queerness, and community. They enjoy combining photography with digital illustration, creating flyers for community events, acrylic painting, and experimenting with upcycled textiles and collage work. They firmly believe in the protection of people and planet through a decolonial lens.

  • Creating — art, music, food, third spaces

  • Reading a book

  • Watching — a comfort film/show

  • Spending time with nature

  • Exploring — museums, thrift stores, coffee shops

  • Journaling

In their free time, you can find them..

Library

Media archive of things they recommend you check out.

    • Loveseat - Still Woozy

    • Picture You Staring - TOPS

    • Love Made Trees - Loaded Honey

    • Tale of My Lost Love - Female Species

    • Adagio - Σtella

    • French Exit - TV Girl

    • Collapsed in Sunbeams - Arlo Parks

    • My Head Is An Animal - Of Monsters and Men

    • Wildflower - The Avalanches

    • V - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    • Mordechai - Khruangbin

    • Adventure Time

    • Regular Show

    • Over the Garden Wall

    • Bob’s Burgers

    • Futurama

    • Abbott Elementary

    • Severance

    • Gravity Falls

    • Steven Universe

    • Dollface

    • Fleabag

    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    • Truman Show

    • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

    • Princess Mononoke

    • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    • Mamma Mia!

    • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    • The Overstory - Richard Powers

    • Out There Screaming - edited by Jordan Peele

    • Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

    • Vampires in the Lemon Grove - Karen Russell

    • Bunny - Mona Awad

    • All About Love - Bell Hooks

    • Death Valley - Melissa Broder

    • Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

    • Outlawed - Anna North

    • Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

    • Wild Geese - Mary Oliver

    • Leaves - Ursula K. Le Guin

    • Love Poem - Audre Lorde

    • Burn Out - Amy M. Alvarez

    • Love Letter from the Afterlife - Andrea Gibson