New World Coming : Frontline Voices on Pandemics, Uprisings, and Climate Crisis

"Different voices in New World Coming tell powerful stories of loss and difficulty plus messages of hope and promise for all as we seek a healing future for the earth and each other." — REGINA LOPEZ-WHITESKUNK (Ute Mountain Ute), contributor to Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears New World Coming documents the distinct moment through personal narratives and intergenerational imaginings of a just, healthy, and equitable future. Writers reflect on what movements for justice and liberation can learn from the response to COVID–19, uprisings for Black lives, and climate crisis, through essays and poems that inspire and generate the change we need to survive and thrive. ALASTAIR LEE BITSÓÍ (Diné) is a public health and environmental writer from the Navajo Nation. He is an award–winning news reporter for the Navajo Times , and served as communications director for the Indigenous–led land conservation nonprofit, Utah Diné Bikéyah, which continues advocacy for protection and restoration of Bears Ears National Monument. His newly launched consulting business, Near the Water Communications and Media Group, provides public health messaging services for organizations. He holds a master's degree in public health from New York University College of Global Public Health, and is an alumnus of Gonzaga University. BROOKE LARSEN is a writer and community organizer. She has an MA in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah and was the recipient of the High Country News Bell Prize for emerging writers. Brooke has spent the past decade organizing with the climate justice movement. She co–founded Uplift, a youth–led organization for climate justice in the Southwest, and was a youth delegate to the UN Climate Change Conference in 2016 with SustainUS. Brooke resides and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, ancestral land of the Goshute, Shoshone, and Ute people. In our new world, we will bring cooked food to our neighbors, we will grow plants out of plastic gas canisters, we will decompose borders while we come home, writes Lyrica Jensen Maldonado in New World Coming. As the warming world emerges from pandemic, what might a collective, regenerative future look like? What can movements for justice and liberation learn from the response to COVID-19 and uprisings for Black lives? Writers of the Southwest, on the frontlines of climate and justice movements, document this distinct moment in history through personal stories and intergenerational imaginings of a just, healthy, and equitable future, inspiring the change we need to survive and thrive. **"Different voices in __New World Coming__ tell powerful stories of loss and difficulty plus messages of hope and promise for all as we seek a healing future for the earth and each other." —**REGINA LOPEZ–WHITESKUNK** (Ute Mountain Ute), contributor to __Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears__ __New World Coming__ documents the distinct moment through personal narratives and intergenerational imaginings****ALASTAIR LEE BITSÓÍ**__Navajo Times__**BROOKE LARSEN**__High Country News__ Amid pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate crisis, frontline organizers and writers imagine transformative solutions for a just and thriving future.