Future Twin

“Where Hope Creates Memory”
4 x 6
on paper
2025
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For what it’s worth—and believe me, I know gender essentialism isn’t always worth very much—it interests me that many women writing on climate, especially women of color, rarely engage in the “game over” style of thinking or feeling common to “doomer dudes,” even when their apprehension of the problem—and sometimes their experience of it—is equally grave or more so.
This makes sense, insofar as fears of an apocalypse come to transform or destroy one’s secure, comfortable, hopefully inheritable lifestyle are nothing if not indicative of a certain class, racial or national status, one for which civilizational collapse has been but a novel or notional threat rather than something that has already occurred.
“If the Anthropocene proclaims a sudden concern with the exposure of environmental harm to white liberal communities, it does so in the wake of histories in which these harms have been knowingly exported to black and brown communities under the rubric of civilization, progress, modernization, and capitalism,” writes Kathryn Yusoff in “A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None.”
“The Anthropocene might seem to offer a dystopia future that laments the end of the world, but imperialism and ongoing (settler) colonialisms have been ending worlds for as long as they have been in existence.”
After centuries of such exportation, it might seem grotesque to turn around and seek guidance on mourning and survival from those whose pasts and presents have been ravaged by imperialism, colonialism, environmental degradation, and slavery.
All the more reason, then, not to see k guidance per se, but to let those with more wisdom as to how to live past “game over” lead the way.
- “Riding the Blinds” 2021