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Mar 20, 2023

We Been Had Environmental Blues

Bucking, Swimming, Clucking, and Running for Higher Ground

We Been Had Environmental Blues

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Jul 22, 2024

The Red-Winged Blackbird Sings Me Forward

The red-winged blackbird helped me decolonize my view of myself. The bird is not beholden to time or even the miles that had separated us.

The Red-Winged Blackbird Sings Me Forward

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Nov 4, 2023

Reckoning with The Slow Violence We’ve Come to Accept

At times of war, when the mainstream media or when the collective acknowledges war, we are confronted with consequences of slow violence…

Reckoning with The Slow Violence We’ve Come to Accept

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Aug 5, 2022

Beyoncé’s Renaissance Proclaims Blackness and Black Sound Beyond Mainstream Borders

I do feel intentionality in Renaissance, an explicit conversation with Blackness across the diaspora. I hear an unruly, Black creative…

Beyoncé’s Renaissance Proclaims Blackness and Black Sound Beyond Mainstream Borders

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Aug 15, 2021

Environmentalists ‘Should’ Redirect Their Climate Change Soapbox

So, I hear climate change, and I don’t think I have the same understanding.

Environmentalists ‘Should’ Redirect Their Climate Change Soapbox

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Dec 23, 2020

Rediscovering Black Joy in Nature This Year

I find joy knowing that there are many that experience Black joy in nature despite the myth and despite the concerted efforts to silence…

Rediscovering Black Joy in Nature This Year

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Jul 12, 2020

Performative Allyship Won’t Save Black Lives

I understand that I am a guest on Coast Salish lands — that I too could fall into the pitfall of continuing the performance.

Performative Allyship Won’t Save Black Lives

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Jun 16, 2020

The Tragedy of the Environmental Movement

The foundations of the movement are not inclusive of the vast experiences that people of color face: the environmental movement…

The Tragedy of the Environmental Movement

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May 28, 2020

This is what I look like under the heat and the sun in landscapes that are otherwise beautiful.

But the heat and the sun and the dying sea speaks truths that the pristine never wants us to see. ⁣⁣ ⁣ I am from southern fire and brim…

This is what I look like under the heat and the sun in landscapes that are otherwise beautiful.

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Aug 20, 2019

Remembering Ancestral Connections and Bridges in the South

The crisp southern breeze swayed leaves on the southern tree branches — a breeze that also sent chills throughout my body on a below…

Remembering Ancestral Connections and Bridges in the South

Rasheena Fountain

Rasheena Fountain

an artist, growing scholar, musician, poet, and essayist with focus on Black environmental memory, literature, migration studies, and blues/other Black music.

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