I worked with Climate Visuals to co-create the script for this video, 10 principles to communicate climate change, for organizations and groups trying to motivate action to respond to climate change.
Author: francessanlee
Blog post: Free immigrant families and #ReunifyWA
I co-wrote this blog post for Resource Media about the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project bail fund to free immigrant families from the federal prison in SeaTac in Summer 2018.
Blog post: Getting #ClimateWoke
I co-wrote this blog post for Resource Media about the #ClimateWoke campaign with CultureStrike, aimed to tie together national conversations around social and climate justice.
New Book Review: The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin
I wrote a book review for Chia-Chia Lin’s new novel The Unpassing, a story about a Taiwanese immigrant family vying for the American Dream in rural Anchorage, Alaska in the 1980’s. Read it here.
New essay: It Is Just Me, Or Does Activist Writing Need A Citational Practice?
I published a new piece on Medium about citations, social remembering and giving people credit for their intellectual labor. It has been selected as a Recommended piece on Medium. Read it here.
Republish: The Seattle Globalist
The Seattle Globalist republished my October 2018 Medium piece about empathy on their website: “Seeking change without the commodification of pain and suffering“.
Radio Segment: CBC’s The Sunday Edition
I recorded an essay for CBC’s The Sunday Edition November 30 2018, “When the personal is too political”.
Essay: On the Commodification of Suffering: Anti-Trans Memos and the Fallacy of Empathy
I published a new piece on Medium in light of the anti-trans memos released in October 2018.
Essay: No justice without love: why activism must be more generous
I published a new essay in the Transformation section of Open Democracy about the need for more generosity and coalition work in activism.
Syllabus: Woker Than Thou
I published an updated and expanded version of my “Woker Than Thou Experimental Syllabus” on Medium. The syllabus guides community activists and members into an investigation of how activist identities are formed through self-education, performance, and direct/indirect communication styles.