Welcome to a hot take on book clubs called [POLLEN]. This is an invitation to weekly bite sized explorations (all 30 minutes or less) of all the dope things that pollinate conservation in our lives. We’re talking about challenging the ideas of “pristine” forests and sci-fi queerness all through forms of IGTV, art, music, op-eds, poetry, and more. These are explorations to spark conversation, awe, joy, creativity, and pleasure. Join other DDCSP alum as awe fumble through and cross-pollinate ways conservation weaves through our world and our future world(s).
READING LIST:
11.10 the PRISTINE and the UNTOUCHED [register]
- Lies of a Pristine Forest, Cultural Burning (watching, total time 25min)
- Check out the COLLABORATIVE PLAYLIST
11.17 what you put in your mouth [register]
- Youth Food Bill of Rights, Gather Film Clip, What you put in your mouth can change the world, The Man Who Relives Slave History Through Food (reading & watching, total time 20min)
- (Optional) The Honorable Harvest, How Black Culinary Historians Are Rewriting the History of American Food, Arrest of an imu organizer heats up debate over Hawaiian language rights, The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems in North America, Pueblo Food Experience (CW: diet and weight)
- Check out the COLLABORATIVE PLAYLIST
12.1 the future WE choose [register]
- adrienne maree brown takes us into 2050 (13:20-25:50), We (poem), Better Worlds: St.Juju, Better Worlds: A Theory of Flight, The Woman Who Chose to Plant Corn (reading & watching, total time 25min)
- (Optional) The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord
- Check out the COLLABORATIVE PLAYLIST
All of these materials are "optional". Feel free to engage with what you have time for and with what most interests you. We will focus each conversation on 2-5 short form pieces all 30min or less and offer/ask that anyone joining discussions bring in their own experiences and other connecting learnings and readings as well. No matter if you have a chance to read, watch, or listen to the suggested material, you are welcome!