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Tag: climate change

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What Happens When Over 1,000 Artists Play a Game of Telephone Around the World

Did we create 1,000+ artworks or one collective worldwide masterpiece When you were a kid, did you ever play the telephone game? […]

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July 1, 2026June 12, 2026
cover of Mixtape Review Issue III

Poetry and mixtapes: Writing inspired by music

When I learned about The Mixtape Review literary magazine, I was excited to submit one of my poems inspired by a song. Each poem and prose […]

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June 5, 2025April 10, 2026
Flooding in Angyalföld, Budapest, Budapest in 2013. Photo by Joost (formerly habeebee).

‘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 […]

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July 15, 2021April 10, 2026

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 […]

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February 6, 2020February 6, 2020

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 […]

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January 8, 2020January 28, 2020

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 […]

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April 23, 2018April 23, 2018

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 […]

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April 1, 2018April 1, 2018

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 […]

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February 16, 2018

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 […]

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February 7, 2018February 15, 2018

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 […]

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July 25, 2017July 25, 2017

‘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 […]

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June 3, 2016May 30, 2016
climate change creates underwater world in 2085 text overlaid on cloudy skies field

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: […]

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January 24, 2016June 20, 2016

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 […]

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March 12, 2011July 27, 2017
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