Status Updates From The Slow Grind: Finding Our...

‘All the crises we face today, all those at the fundament of the emergency, are linked by the willingness of those in power - financial and structural power - to subjugate and exploit those they consider different, whose languages they do not understand, whose voices they refuse to hear, whose lives they refuse to bear witness to.’ -Bel Jacobs

‘Colonialism has, in many contexts, laid the groundwork for racialised communities to fall victim to the effects of climate breakdown. This has been facilitated through continued economic subjugation as a result of a long era of colonial extractivism as well as the “violent expansion of European economies.” ‘ -Renuka Ramanujam

‘I’m really thrilled by this upcoming generation of kids…And they’re very conscious that the climate crisis is real. They’re not in denial. They want to do something about it. They’re tired of y’all. I’m like, yes! That gives me so much hope. As I find my heart getting tired, they are getting angry, and they’re getting fired up and they’re being so creative…’ -adrienne maree brown

‘…imagination as a place of strength and beauty and practice that we need to be in, but I also wonder how to balance the relationship between imagination and reality…we want to be able to imagine a future we love. But imagination is the key to unlocking a collective consciousness that’s able to actually be in relationship with what’s happening from a place that’s not hopeless.’ -Adrienne Maree Brown

‘An intersectional environmentalist practice then, is when we attune ourselves to ecology and apply critical realism to an understanding of the interrelationship between power, the ecological crisis and the structural and global hangover of the colonialist and imperialist projects.’ -Georgina Johnson

‘Art has increasingly become a forum where open socio-politic conversations and criticality can emerge - as they should.’ -Francesca Gavin