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Occasionally, a picture has the power to connect with viewers emotionally, particularly as we grow increasingly desensitised to the cold facts and figures about climate change and the environmental crisis. (Face the Reality of Climate Change, but Through the Lens of Photography | Sound of Life)

See also this link on artists championing our planet, the world of field recording, and more stories behind the inseparable ties of nature and sound.

#green issues #climate change #arts activism #photography #artists

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Structured around eight concepts – melancholia, nostalgia, depression, burnout, exhaustion, bitterness, trauma, and mourning – Proctor explores the history of how people endured when their efforts to change the world for the better didn’t pan out as they had hoped. (via How activists can push through burnout and defeat | Dazed Digital)

More info: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/970-burnout and a podcast with the author.

#Hannah Proctor #Burnout #nonfiction #activism #social change #revolution

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PopMatters has scoured the musical spectrum for the best examples of the protest song form, including anthems of great popularity and obscurity alike. May they inspire you to stand up and be heard in the midst of whatever dark hour you find yourself in. (via SAY IT LOUD! 100 TIMELESS PROTEST SONGS | Pop Matters)

#arts activism #music #protest music #protest

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To be an activist now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. (...) While there are notable exceptions, many strands of contemporary activism risk emphasizing the self over the collective. By contrast, organizing is cooperative by definition: it aims to bring others into the fold, to build and exercise shared power. Organizing, as Smucker smartly defines it, involves turning “a social bloc into a political force.” (...) There are still plenty of arenas in which real organizing—what Rudd described in his talk as “education, base-building, and coalition,” and what I would describe as creating collective identity and shared economic power—is being done, but these slow-moving efforts are often overshadowed by the latest spectacle or viral outrage. (via Against Activism | The Baffler)

#activism #organizing #activist #organizer #Astra Taylor

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Thinking about unwellness, studying it, dwelling in it, has radically transformed my approaches to everything I do. And if unwellness is structural, then so must be care. Self-care is an individual solution to an individual problem, completely divorced from a social context. We need structures of care that address the actual forces that make life feel unbearable. (via ‘We are all unwell’: a scholar’s radical approach to health | The Guardian)

See also, For The Wild Podcast - Transcript: DR. MIMI KHÚC on Claiming Unwellness /304 and access the audio here. The LA Review of Books - Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia”, and her TEDx Talk, The Revolution is in the Heart.

#Mimi Khúc #Mimi Khuc #unwellness #mental healthy #society #health #Asian #universities #model Asian #model minority

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At the heart of Le Guin’s work, echoing inside it, vibrating it from start to finish, lies the problem of imperialist, capitalist carnage, and of the revolution we need to stop it. In some major part, her importance today lies in how she wrestled with a problem that admitted no solution, refracting it across a kaleidoscope of works. (...) Le Guin leaves us with a task: filling the silence left inside her work, making the revolution. (via Five Years after Ursula K. Le Guin’s Death, We Need Her More Than Ever | Left Voice)

#Ursula K. Le Guin #writer #arts activism #literature #revolution #books

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To understand where black liberation jazz may head next, it’s helpful to listen to where it’s been. Here are 15 essential songs from the late 1960s and ’70s when the subgenre was just being established — a list that highlights tracks that were considered underground. (via 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks | The New York Times)

#jazz #music #arts activism #Black liberation #Blackness

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In 1980, the Israeli columnist Boaz Evron carefully described the stages of this moral corrosion: the tactic of conflating Palestinians with Nazis and shouting that another Shoah is imminent was, he feared, liberating ordinary Israelis from ‘any moral restrictions, since one who is in danger of annihilation sees himself exempted from any moral considerations which might restrict his efforts to save himself’. Jews, Evron wrote, could end up treating ‘non-Jews as subhuman’ and replicating ‘racist Nazi attitudes’. (via The Shoah after Gaza | London Review of Books)

#Pankaj Mishra #Israel #Gaza #Jews #discrimination #war #Israelis #Israeli government #Palestinians #LRB #Shoah

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The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism is a tool to identify, confront and raise awareness about antisemitism as it manifests in countries around the world today. It includes a preamble, definition, and a set of 15 guidelines that provide detailed guidance for those seeking to recognize antisemitism in order to craft responses. It was developed by a group of scholars in the fields of Holocaust history, Jewish studies, and Middle East studies to meet what has become a growing challenge: providing clear guidance to identify and fight antisemitism while protecting free expression. Initially signed by 210 scholars, it has now around 350 signatories. (via The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism)

#Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism #antisemitism #Jewish #definition #discrimination

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In propaganda aimed internally at its own citizens and externally toward the West, the Israeli government asserts that Palestinian grievance is not about land, mobility, rights, or freedom, but instead, antisemitism. In the last weeks, Israeli leaders have continued to instrumentalize the history of Jewish trauma to dehumanize Palestinians. (via A Dangerous Conflation: An open letter from Jewish writers | n+1)

See also Naomi Klein's article on Jonathan Glazer's 2024 Oscar speech.

#Jewish #Israel #criticism #Jewish writers #Israeli government #antisemitism

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Fifty one percent of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leaders say their top challenge is business leaders failing to take ownership for driving DEI outcomes, according to Gartner, Inc. (via Gartner HR Survey Identifies Top Five Challenges Facing DEI Leaders | Gartner)

See also A Global Look at the Chief Diversity Officer Landscape by Russell Reynolds

#diversity #Chief Diversity Officer #workplace #equity #CDO

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Many diversity executives feel a lack of buy-in from their colleagues. (via The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer | The Wall Street Journal)

See also A troubling pattern’: has Hollywood given up on pushing for diversity? in The Guardian, The ‘Great DEI Resignation’ – why are so many diversity heads calling it quits? in TLNT, and Chief diversity officers: why tenure is low, turnover high in BusinessChief.

#Chief Diversity Officer #CDO #diversity #race #equity #workplace

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Camae Ayewa, having explored the origins of Black music on 2022’s Jazz Codes, is now interested in the horrors of colonialism. (via MOOR MOTHER "The Great Bailout" | The Line of Best Fit)

Listen to The Great Bailout on Bandcamp

#Moor Moother #arts activism #music #slavery #colonialism #Blackness #Camae Ayewa #The Great Bailout

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Ayaba - Rainha - Queen is an experimental video that disrupts stereotypes and advocates for Black women’s experiences by illustrating the intersections they face due to their race and gender. (via Ayrton 'SAM' Mendes - Aesthetica Art Prize)

Alternative Vimeo link here

#women #Black women #art #arts activism #video #experimental video #Ayrton Mendes #SAM #Blackness #Black

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...a series of artifacts that exhibit designed decay. They were done for the 2019 Ginkgo Bioworks Creative Residency on how to design a world without waste. (via Design by Decay, Decay by Design | Ars Electronica)

#Design by Decay #Decay by Design #arts activism #arts #design #Andrea Ling #green issues

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Touch also releases oxytocin, the hormone released during sex and childbirth to bond us together. In other words, human touch is biologically good for you. Being touched makes humans feel calmer, happier, and more sane. (via Skin hunger helps explain your desperate longing for human touch | Wired)

See also What does it mean to be 'touch starved'?

#skin #touch #skin hunger #covid #human #human touch

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If you are among the women recently diagnosed [with ADHD] and coming to terms with a lifetime of false labels, these books may bring relief and clarity. (via 10 Books Every Woman Should Read After Her ADHD Diagnosis | ADDitude Mag)

See also Symptoms of ADHD in Women and Girls and ADHD In Women: Signs, Symptoms, And Treatment. Of related interest is this online Adult ADHD Self Screening Tool or this other tool, Female ADHD Test: Symptoms in Women and Girls and this Guardian article including its Comments section, Could I have undiagnosed ADHD? We ask an expert. Last but not least, Adult ADHD: 7 Tips to Energize Your Life.

For a range of articles on ADHD in women, see here.

#ADHD #nonfiction #women #books #ADHD screening #adult ADHD