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Just Stories: How Speculative Fiction can Challenge Climate ApartheidNick Wood

Nick Wood — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:00:55 +0000

Speculative Fiction (SF) models potential scenarios for the future of humanity by proposing alternative visions of the future that evoke different ways of inhabiting the world. But such templates can threaten the status quo: during apartheid in South Africa, several SF novels were banned, and the current right-wing book-bans in the United States show that [...]

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Q&A with Sarah Bridle: Fixing Our Food SystemKatie Percival

Sarah Bridle — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:00:05 +0000

Writers Rebel’s Katie Percival interviews Professor Sarah Bridle, a UK-based interdisciplinary researcher and writer concerned with what our food system is doing to climate change, and what we might need to do to fix it. Katie Percival: Your background is as an astrophysicist, but in the last few years you’ve turned your attention to [...]

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Does Throwing Food Help?Diana McCaulay

Diana McCaulay — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:00:50 +0000

Recently two women threw a can of soup onto the glass protecting Vincent Van Gogh’s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery, and then glued their palms to the wall. Watching the YouTube video, I’m struck by how young they are. Their hands shake as they apply the glue to their palms, and [...]

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Monique Roffey’s Letter to Kathy Gyngell of the GWPF

Monique Roffey — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:00:56 +0000

12th September, 2022 Dear Kathy Gyngell, I’m a well-known novelist and co-founder of Writers Rebel and I’m writing to you because Steve Baker announced last week that he’d been given a role in Liz Truss’s new government as junior minister in the Northern Ireland office. A day later, he stepped down from his role as [...]

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Sir Jonathon Porritt’s Letter to Jerome Booth of the GWPF

Jonathon Porritt — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:00:49 +0000

Sunday 2nd October Dear Jerome Booth, Forgive me contacting you out of the blue – but I was just reading about your association with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in today’s Observer! That came as something of a surprise, I have to say, given the acumen you have brought to bear on [...]

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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Tyson Yunkaporta

XR Writers Rebel — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:11:57 +0000

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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis | Amitav Ghosh

Katie Percival — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:42:27 +0000

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Loss Soup & Other Stories | Nick Hunt

Katie Percival — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:31:10 +0000

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After Ithaca | Charlotte Du Cann

Katie Percival — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:23:28 +0000

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