A list of things I’d rather not forget:
simple life philosophies
17 July 2023
Cat’s Craddle by Kurt Vonnegut.
climate and change
12 April 2023
Naomi Klein for an interview with Basta! by Agnès Rousseaux and Sophie Chapelle (April 24 2015). Despite its good intentions and scientific grounding, ‘degrowth’ has not yet tapped into those with whom the climate movement can gain momentum.
our fight starts with my fight
24 March 2023
Dare to Question: A Journal for Uprising by Marcel Taminato. Image 1: quote from Naomi Klein; image 1: quote from Eliane Brum. Each quote speaks to the process of formulating a narrative capable of spurring collective action. This book is part of the three-book collection that can be requested by 350 Aotearoa volunteers.
why don’t you like me?
10 March 2023
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. Page 34. The feminine urge to please your bully.
(re)thinking progress
04 March 2023
Resist! How To Be An Activist in The Age of Defiance by Michael Segalov. Paragraph 2 (from the foreword by Owen Jones). I like to think of this paragraph in relation to my entry from 10 February 2023. The process of (re)thinking ‘progress’ beyond the linear understanding of gains and achievements is to work toward a decolonized activism. It reminds me to keep the big picture in mind, to feel fulfilled by a strong and enduring community in the first instance.
time: little; to do: a lot
25 February 2023
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (third edition) by Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
dusty road trips, a fluorescent glow
08 February 2023
Petrocultures: Oil, Culture, Politics edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, and Imre Szeman. Image 1: paragraph 2, line 3-16; image 2: paragraph 2, line 1-6.
a book I’ve never read
17 January 2023
Knock by Jules Romains. My ex-stepfather performed reiki and believed in ‘fighting cancer from within’. He was – both in manner and ancestry – deeply French. He gave me this book when I was 12, but I never read it.
‘my bank card’s been cancelled’ and so forth
15 January 2023
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. From page 67, paragraph 8 onwards. This section scared me more than anything else in this book or The Handmaid’s Tale. It introduced me to a plausible mechanism for my worst climate nightmares.
a hopeful saucepan
02 January 2023
Growing Pains by Gwynne Dyer. Image 1: paragraph 2 onwards; image 2: paragraph 1. An answer for when someone implies that greed and selfishness are part of the ‘human condition’.