27 quotes
I want my lineage to be a lineage of someone who fought hard for human existence on this planet. My despair and grief and fear and anger informed that, and they're powerful parts of that fight, just as much as my love.
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (2023)
Each of us is going to have to start to say, in my own life, can I navigate and operate as if no one is disposable?
Interview with KQED (2021)
If you are born into an abusive identity, there's another way possible. If you were shaped into being someone who is driven towards conflict, causing harm to other people, there's another way possible.
Interview with KQED (2021)
My most subversive joy is... that internal knowledge that I am not inferior to a man who is simultaneously thinking that he is superior to me.
Interview with Bon Appétit (2019)
The work of decolonizing the future is the work of decolonizing our imaginations. We have to tell stories in which the protagonists are those whose stories are least often told, recentering our attention away from the elite, the celebrities, the influencers.
Forward to Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors (2023)
My pleasure icons are... Marla Stewart of Velvet Lips. Rihanna, obviously. Lizzo too, the pleasure she gets from just confronting the world with her excellence and then laughing.
Interview with Bon Appétit (2019)
Everything dies, but that’s kind of good. It makes for a very rich world. All the richness, all that fecundity, all that beautiful miracle of life, it happens because we live in cycles, not perpetuity.
Interview with On Being (2022)