‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Disability Justice is Climate Justice
I’m one little person. That’s partly a pun, because I have dwarfism and am quite short. And partly a play on words […]
Tag: climate change
The Future is Disabled: Planning for Climate Change Must Include People with Disabilities
This essay first appeared in the Entropy Inherited Newsletter Last June, I attended the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. The rainbows […]
Climate change planning must include the disabled 🌍♿
Update: Read my feature on climate change and disability in the January issue of Entropy Inherited. Sneak peek: I have an essay […]
Using a sensitivity reader for my latest writing project
I nightmare natural disasters. Tidal waves filling up my apartment building, floor by floor. Tornadoes suddenly appearing on the road in front […]
Find me at these upcoming spring events
Spring is finally here! Even though it’s still cold out there for a D.C. spring, it smells like flowers and mulch and […]
Honoring MLK’s legacy, AWP, & other upcoming events
While the weather outside may be frightful, plenty of writers — including this one — are giving readings through the winter months […]
Science fiction as fact
The science fiction I’m writing isn’t even fiction anymore. I’ve been reading about Cape Town, Africa’s impending Day Zero and the water limits people […]
Earth’s future is uninhabitable
I feel like I’ve just come back from a long trip to the future, and returned, and I’m stricken. I finished reading […]
‘Forecast: 4015’ in Nebula Rift
What happens to Washington, D.C. in the future? I envision the city’s hovering Metro as nuclear-powered in the year 4015, which gets the […]
Climate change as muse
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a series of stories titled ‘Forecast’. Today, the first one I wrote, “Forecast: […]
Environmental journalist encourages political activism in climate change issues
Marlena Chertock MARCH 10, 2011 Environmental journalist Elizabeth Kolbert described climate change, the future of the world’s food availability and encouraged students […]