For three days, it’s been too hot to eat anything but small piles of foods straight out of a fridge I’m lucky to have.
I’m working on an actual essay for you about care networks and extreme heat, but in the meantime, have a sampler of different flavors and textures with minimal cooking time.
No summary for this one because the descriptions are the content, more or less.
INVITE ME
“How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love My Neighbors,” the climate listening workshop I led with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, was a success and a delight. I’ve also just developed a workshop called “Weathering Frustration: Climate Communication for People Who Know Too Much.”
They’re both about an hour long, and they can be held in person or remotely. Free for groups with leadership and/or majority membership of color or any groups who want to take the outline and adapt it yourselves, $250 for majority white groups who want me to facilitate. Write to me at schapira.kate@gmail.com if you’re interested!
COME SEE ME
June 22, 2-6pm, at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook, Brooklyn/Lenape lands, talking with Red Hook Art Project director Tiffiney Davis and raising money for RHAP (free to get in, a $30 or more donation onsite gets you a copy of my book). Come and go as you please; Tiffiney and I will probably start our conversation about climate anxiety and community care, for your viewing pleasure, around 2:30. Kid-friendly but there’s no formal childcare onsite.
June 9, 7pm, Riffraff Books, Providence/Narragansett lands, with Elizabeth Rush, Meghan Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli. This reading event will focus on climate change, reproductive justice, and the “kid question” (Jade Sasser has also written about this).
July 10, 2pm, Bloomberg Green Festival in Seattle/Duwamish lands, I think, but correct me if I’m wrong? I’ll be speaking on a panel with Dr. Jylana Sheats and Sarah Newman, and then listening at the counseling booth for a while after that. Sarah will be listening too.
July 13, 10-12pm (booth) & 1pm (book), David M. Hunt Library, Falls Village CT/Mohawk lands. This is my home turf! My horrible high school is in Falls Village and my wonderful high school best friend, also Kate, grew up there.
READ SOME THINGS
I talked with longtime friend Bronwen Tate about clarity and collectivity.
The Climate + Community Project wrote about the ties among education, abolition, and sustainability.
Elizabeth Sawin’s work on multisolving informed Lessons… and continues to shape my community participation today. Pre-order her book!
COOL IT DOWN
If you’re in Pennsylvania, you have a chance to contribute to utility justice, which could in turn help people survive the next heat wave, and the next.
If you’re anywhere at all in the US, donate to people charged and/or locked up for their part in the 2020 uprisings. Extreme heat is common and deadly in prison.
Speaking of which, sign up to learn about REBUILD’s free therapy for people of color impacted by the prison system. I learned about this only today and know people who could benefit from the program! Maybe you do too?
I wrote a book, LESSONS FROM THE CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING BOOTH: HOW TO LIVE WITH CARE AND PURPOSE IN AN ENDANGERED WORLD (Hachette Go, 2024). This newsletter holds the ways that what's in it has branched out: new reflections, events and workshops, unresolved questions, further reading, ways to connect and act. I'm glad to be here on earth with you.