Book #3: Recap
Resources and further reading.
Hi friends! I’m Jess and this is Book Club for the Planet, an online community for us to read about the climate crisis and solutions, together.
Honestly, I enjoy the chat in our book club meetings as much as I enjoy our spoken discussion! And I finally got around to organizing the chat into a recap to share with you. Even if you couldn’t make our last meet-up, enjoy this juicy round-up of podcast episodes, art installations, Kickstarter projects, YouTube lectures, recorded symposiums, Instagram favorites to follow, and much, much more.
Additional Resources:
Thanks to Michele for sharing The Radical Monarchs, an organization that empowers leadership among young girls of color. She highly recommends listening to this video with Akiima Price (it's an hour but pretend it's a podcast)—it delves into engaging urban and stressed populations in the outdoors.
Carrie shared a bunch of artists and art projects that intersect with the themes of this book, including a start with looking at Museums as White Spaces (a 4-minute listen from WNYC).
Karyn Olivier covered a confederate monument in a mirror to reflect the park and neighborhood residents around it instead!
The Monuments, Markers and Memory 2021 Symposium series is now past, but check out that link for details and affiliated exhibitions.
Christine Howard Sandoval is an interdisciplinary artist you should know, whose work challenges the boundaries of representation, access, and habitation through the use of performance, video, and sculpture.
The Digging Du Bois participatory art project is a 200-mile participatory artwork of repair, kinship, celebration, and travel across W.E.B Du Bois' Black Belt!
Another Gulf is a group to watch, representing the interests of the Gulf South and Global South and using the transformative nature of art and media to challenge the status quo.
Do you know the Father of Environmental Justice, Dr. Robert Bullard? Now you do!
For all our knitters, sewers, and fiber lovers, check out the 2020 Fibershed Wool and Fine Fiber Symposium: Healthy Soil and Sea. Nearly 12 hours of programming you can download and watch! And Jess shared this lecture from the 2019 Symposium featuring Dominique Drakeford:
Thanks to Jess for pointing to this publication that acknowledges the need to support Indigenous peoples in efforts to advance efforts towards biocultural diversity and sustainable land management practices, Recognition and Support of Indigenous California Land Stewards, Practitioners of Kincentric Ecology.
She also pointed to this episode from the podcast, How to Save A Planet, about soil and regenerative farming.
Also, don’t know whose tribal land you live on? Find out here.
Thanks to Liz for sharing a book! (We love books.) Check out The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene from Verso Books.
Big ol’ Instagram share from Michele:
Outdoor Afro, Natives Outdoors, Latino Outdoors, Leah Thomas, Intersectional Environmentalist, Melanin Base Camp, Hike Clerb, and of course, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. For Baltimore folks! Pigtown Climbs, Backyard Basecamp, and Strength to Love Farm!
And I’ll leave you with the delightful “Black Forager,” Alexis Nikole, on TikTok!