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Article: The Luxury of Dread: Feelings about Climate Collapse

Posted on 4 October 2023

In my latest article for Unsustainable Magazine, I unapologetically brought my academic research on affect to bear on our current climate emergency. I hope it contributes to the discussion of how we react to the climate apocalypse in a good way.

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Women and Climate Speaker

Posted on 14 August 2023

Proud to be a speaker in the Women and Climate Speaker Database!  I’m happy to speak on the topic of solarpunk, climate futures, or climate optimism at your event, especially if it’s an academic or literary conference/convention. I prefer virtual talks to cut down on carbon emissions, but I’m willing to travel for the right…

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Review: Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures

Posted on 20 April 2023

I wrote a review of an excellent edited collection of solarpunk essays. You should read it here, and then go read the book.

Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures. Edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland. West Virginia UP, 2022. 208pp. Paperback $26.99. Ebook $26.99.

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Upcoming Roundtable Participation at “Situated Solar Relations”

Posted on 14 April 2023

On May 11, I’ll be participating (virtually) in a roundtable at “Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking scale for the renewable energy age” at Concordia University, hosted by the Solar Media Collective. Catch me at Roundtable 1: Art, Literature, & the Aesthetics of Hopeful Futures.

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On CanLit and Canadian Identity: stumbling towards a sorry/story

Posted on 28 March 2023

This is going to be a post about Canadian literature, because I just did a whole PhD on Canadian science fiction, and studying The Discourse ™ of CanLit during the 20th century was a whole part of it. So this lives in my brain now, rent-free, and I have opinions on it to share with folks.

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Cover of Geez magazine issue 54, Climate Justice. In the foreground is a set table, with a chair leaning back precariously. The table's legs are almost completely submerged; water surrounds it to the horizon, over which the title of the issue, Climate Justice, is hovering.

Faulty Indictment in a Man-Made Era

Posted on 21 March 2023

This is an article that I wrote back in the spring of 2019 for publication in Geez 54, an issue dedicated to climate justice. It came out of my research and thinking at the time, much of which was informed by solarpunk.

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ShortCuts Live! Talking with Ariel Kroon, Nick Beauchesne, and Chelsea Miya

Posted on 20 March 2023

In May 2022, Chelsea Miya, Nick Beauchesne, and I all collaborated on a podcast (which you can listen to here), and reflected on that in a paper that we presented at the SpokenWeb Symposium at Concordia University in Montreal. This ShortCuts episode was recorded shortly after that presentation and is a reflection on the archival audio and the process of collaboration across Zoom as academics.

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Featured image for the article from LiisBet. A gas-masked femme person in a skirt (all clothes/mask are a dark grey) stands in the middle of a city street lined by ruined skyscrapers. The cars behind the figure are broken; the street is not concrete but covered in grass.

Quoted: “Far Flung Feminist Futures”

Posted on 24 February 2023

Basically, what it sounds like. The author reached out to me over email back in December and we had a conversational back-and-forth and this is the result. Give it a read and let me know what you think.

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Solarpunk Presents 2.3

Posted on 14 February 2023

New episode, feat. JD Harlock, poetry editor at Solarpunk Magazine and erstwhile colleague of mine.

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Solarpunk Presents 2.2

Posted on 2 February 2023

Is there anything more solarpunk than public libraries? Serving at the heart of communities, they’re a place where anyone regardless of income, ability, race, class, or gender can go to read books, listen to music, use the internet, learn things, hear story hour, get out of the weather for a while, and ask librarians for information on just about anything, including what organizations to turn to for additional support in your life or endeavor. In Episode 2 of Season 2 of Solarpunk Presents, Christina talks to Don Gardner, a librarian for many years for the Salinas Public Libraries in Monterey County, California. Hear about how people rescued the library after the city council tried to close it down to save money, about what libraries can do for you and your community, and about what you can do for your local library.

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