Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik is the Argentinian author of The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future and amongst the most fascinating thinkers I know. He’s also a good friend.
We spoke about reckoning with past ecological violence of, bio-cultural memory and our collective ecological heritage. Basically, why we need to mix futurism and ancestrality. Also: storytelling, trauma, healing, climate change and The Office and Gilmour Girls, because why not.
Earthquake Donation Links:
The White Helmets whitehelmets.org/en/
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Foundation sams-usa.net
Huquqyat https://www.huquqyat.org/
Molham Team Molhamteam.com
Kurdish Red Crescent heyvasoruk.org
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik’s books and series recommendations:
- Ideas to Postpone the End of the World by Ailton Krenak
- Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Emergent Strategy Series by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe’s Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia by Stan Cox and Paul Cox
Also, the poetry of Joy Harjo, Ilya Kaminsky, Victoria Chang, Dunya Mikhail and Vito Apushana.
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