This is a conversation with Andrew, the Solarpunk Anarchist from Trinidad and Tobago behind the YouTube channel ‘Saint Andrewism.’

Topics Discussed

• What is Solarpunk? Solarpunk Anarchism?

• The problem with Greenwashing
• How to talk about the climate & problems with the climate movement
• Generational shifts in the climate movement

• The importance of intersectionality
• Switzerland’s voting patterns and the reaction to Covid-19 (tangent on my part)
• Why the revolution needs therapy (Reading Ashanti Alston & bell hooks, community care and solidarity, dealing with emotional baggage in revolutionary settings)

• Everyone needs feminism, including men
• The risks of psychologizing patriarchal oppression (brought up episode 27)
• Mutual Aid
• Emotional Anarchism (brought up episodes 59/60)
• On social media and their limitations
• Growing up in Trinidad + some chat about that specific context (legacies of colonialism, colorism, patriarchy, class divides, government corruption, education system, black capitalism, crime)
• Some interesting Trinidad and Lebanon intersections/differences
• Addressing Gen-Zers as a Gen-Zer

• Learning from past movements’ mistakes and successes
• The past being taboo in Lebanon
• Intersections between Solar Punk and Afro-Futurism
• The radical roots of carnival (Trinidad, Notting Hill)

• Discussions within anarchism

Recommended Books

• Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
• The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin

What I recommended:

You’re Dead To Me podcast had a nice episode with Dr Meleisa Ono-George and Nathan Caton on the Notting Hill Carnival.

The TV mini-series Small Axe by Steve McQueen which looks at London’s West Indian community 1969 and 1982 and is based on real events.

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

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