Mutual Aid/Best Practices vs Local Practices
_jzhaoThis image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research, although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.
Shanice Da Costa's Wunderkammer
Hi, I'm Shanice. This Wunderkammer was a tough assignment for me to do. Artist by night, Scientist by day, Dreamer by nature.
How to do nothing: Book Excerpt (Jenny Odell)
"What does it mean to construct digital worlds while the actual world is crumbling before our eyes?"
Snapshot of mood board (collage)
Snapshot of Miro board
Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism : Shelley Streeby
From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future.
Friederici, P. Breakdown: Climate Change and the failure of narrative
"Exploring new ideas for telling climate change stories."
Nixon. Slow Violence and the Environment
In the introduction to his book, Nixon describes three fundamentals for unforeseen violence, environmentalism in poverty and the significant role an environmental writer activist can play in acitiv
This links to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's website. Alex Skula is a Public Health Preparedness Analyst in the Division of Disease Control at the