Author: francessanlee

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Seattle Globalist republished my October 2018 Medium piece about empathy on their website: “Seeking change without the commodification of pain and suffering“.

I recorded an essay for CBC’s The Sunday Edition November 30 2018, “When the personal is too political”.

I published a new piece on Medium in light of the anti-trans memos released in October 2018.

I published a new essay in the Transformation section of Open Democracy about the need for more generosity and coalition work in activism.

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.