Sending love to you

I’m so looking forward to updates from the conference!

I’ll be so curious what you think of it if you read it!

I am grateful to Sarah McCullough at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Feminist Research Institute for publishing this blog post about my review of Kim De Wolff's Synthetic Frontiers!

Living Feminist Lives in a Garbage Patch Feminist work hard to fight against damaging narratives. These are stories designed to harm or limit us. They stymie our imagination and vision of what the world can be. Sometimes we get called killjo...

"Feminists refute such world-constraining stories... [W]e fashion realities that are caring, restorative, and life-affirming. Dr. Weeks models the work of writing better stories in her review of Synthetic Frontiers, published in the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org"
fri.ucdavis.edu/news/living-...

So looking forward to reading this

I am so very sad and mad on your behalf. Sending you a hug.

🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

Ooh, I haven't heard this before; thank you!

Reading the test copy of my book (!!), Myth of the Garbage Patch, and the poems in it still make my stomach tumble. Grateful. 🐚

Love that! Also, how do I get on that list? 🎶

Thanks, Lynn Christina!

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"[I]n 2024 ComEd collaborated with environmental groups represented by the consultancy Eclipse on a flexible interconnection plan. Then, the utility worked out mutually agreeable solutions with those groups, solar developers, and the nonprofit collaborative the Charged Initiative"

Added bonus: "Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastics and the Persistence of Trash Islands" is available for free, open access, on @mitpress.bsky.social's website!

I had a similar thought!

I saw that when I was looking at backpacks recently! I was surprised. I love my Patagonia Atom 24 backpack -- probably a bit small for commuting but works great for me as a daypack.

"I don’t want to oversimplify and say that if plastics are the problem, sheep are the solution."

And to you 🌷

Thank you, Aaron!

Thank you, Rima!

Thank you for reading and for sharing!

+ "If not the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, then where? The answer is: everywhere, all the time...The myth of the garbage patch is a convenient shorthand for the physical reality of how pollution circulates and accumulates in the ocean worldwide. But convenient for whom?"

Have you already read Synthetic Frontiers? I think you would dig it if not!

Thanks for sharing, Nam!

Putting it on my calendar!

What do marine plastic pollution & land stewardship with small ruminants have to do with each other? I wrote a bit about this in my review of Kim De Wolff's magnificent "Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastics and the Persistence of Trash Islands" (@mitpress.bsky.social) for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org 🐏

Hey marine biologists and ocean enthusiasts!

If you were bringing a cohort of artists to the coast for a 3-day marine biology bootcamp (in Sea Isle New Jersey), what field experiences would you take them on?

Thank you so much!