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Hopepunk Heroes
We can be heroes, even for just one day. Hope is Punk. We are all made of stardust. Let's start acting like it. Hopepunk is about fighting for a better future and taking action and doing radical kindness. A lot of times people want to soften it, and think that it is about fluffy self-care, and that’s certainly a part of it, but I want to emphasise that ‘punk’ is the operative half of the word hopepunk. It’s about actively taking action – that doesn’t make a lot of sense but there you have it – and standing up against authority and being the person to stand up for people who are being marginalised or oppressed, or hurt by people in authority.
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“Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
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dandelions are magic. literally tiny suns in the grass that turn into the moon and then the stars when you blow on them. fucking insane.
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I’ll never get over this wedding! So beautiful . I love the embrace of both cultures! 🇬🇭 x 🏴
#glasgowtoghana #tilldeathdousclark #Essie
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ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS
i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.
there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.
doing nothing is good for my soul.
i am not defined by what i produce.
my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.
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Text: When someone asks my political views
Picture of a book titled "Everybody has a house and everybody eats"
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“There’s a huge untapped potential to consider conserving animals as a climate solution. If you do some of the rough calculations, the numbers rival those of what the IPCC is right now promoting in terms of converting everything to solar or wind generation…the numbers are in the same ballpark”
This is called called “trophic rewilding”–many animal species naturally cycle carbon into the soil just by living their lives and restoring these species to their natural range can turn their ecosystems back into carbon sinks.
“Fortunately, we have the technology to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere. It’s called nature.”
Looking at the list of environmental issues–pollution, climate change, species extinction, etc.–can feel overwhelming, but the reality is that nearly all of these issues are intimately connected. This is just one of many examples of how working on one issue also helps solve the others; if you conserve wildlife and restore habitat it also helps mitigate climate change.
(quotes from Oswald Schmitz)
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Connecting on Climate
Often, I think we need to shift the climate and biodiversity crises discussions from facts to stories.
Why choose native trees and plants?
Well, do you remember how bugs splatted on your windshield decades ago compared to now?
Do you remember the fireflies of childhood?
After we notice, after we link these ideas to our personal stories, then it’s time to cultivate questions.
Who else misses these insects?
What about plants with absent pollinators.
What about bats and birds missing their food?
Our kids missing constellations of fireflies?
We link to personal stories.
We foster the follow-up questions.
Then, we reject abstraction and hopelessness. We reject all or nothing thinking and tie our concerns to concrete things we CAN do.
We teach the immense power of doing something even when we can’t do everything.
There is so much we do not control.
Yet, we do control some things.
We have agency.
Perhaps you can plant a white oak and learn/notice who benefits.
Perhaps you can reject lawn and cultivate native plants.
Perhaps you can volunteer or donate or reject damaging products. People care when the issue at hand feels like a part of their own story. People continue to care when they believe they have the power to participate in shaping the story’s future.
We need to get creative and bring the facts home to people’s stories, to their sense of self, but the good news is the truth is a wind at our backs.
Our environment IS a part of everyone’s personal story and our individual actions can/do shape the future of our planet.
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“We Can Grow A Better World” backpatch, linocut on canvas, 13” x 9.5”, December 2022.
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Highly recommend injecting a little whimsy into your life. Say hello to gravestones. Pretend the raindrops on your window are racing. When small children stare at you, wave. My grandfather had a studded belt that started losing its studs. He replaced them with googly eyes. Do what you can to make your life a bit lighter
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‘Mother Nature.’ Microsoft Paint.
The first thing I was able to complete after getting my tablet up and running again! Green isn’t my favorite color to work with, but I found myself liking it more by the end of drawing this.
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