A warning, a movement, a collection borne of protest.
In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on the present and future consequences of the climate emergency. Ice caps are melting, wildfires are raging, and species extinction is accelerating. Dire predictions about the climate emergency from scientists, Indigenous land and water defenders, and striking school children have mostly been ignored by the very institutions – government, education, industry, and media – with the power to do something about it.
Writers and artists confront colonization, racism, and the social inequalities that are endemic to the climate crisis. Here the imagination amplifies and humanizes the science. These works are impassioned, desperate, hopeful, healing, transformative, and radical.
This is a call to climate-justice action.
Proceeds will be donated to RAVEN and Climate Justice Toronto.
Edited by Madhur Anand, Stephen Collis, Jennifer Dorner, Catherine Graham, Elena Johnson, Canisia Lubrin, Kim Mannix, Kathryn Mockler, June Pak, Sina Queyras, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rasiqra Revulva, Yusuf Saadi, Sanchari Sur, and Jacqueline Valencia
With art by Kevin Adonis Browne, Sacha Archer, Adam Gunn,Eshrat Erfanian, Jessica Houston, Gaye Jackson, Sarah Mangle, Aude Moreau, Shelley Niro, Sarah Pereux, and Barry Pottle.
With writing by Jordan Abel, Kazim Ali, Hari Alluri, Sacha Archer, Rae Armantrout, Joanne Arnott, Oana Avasilichioaei, Sâkihitowin Awâsis, Chris Bailey, Carleigh Baker, Jonathan Ball, Manahil Bandukwala, Gary Barwin, Yvonne Blomer, Nicole Brossard, Kevin Adonis Browne, Jenna Butler, Jody Chan, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Ching-In Chen, Margaret Christakos, Allison Cobb, CAConrad, Dani Couture, Francine Cunningham, Jen Currin, Simone Dalton, Ruth Daniell, Adrian De Leon, Trynne Delaney, Adam Dickinson, Marcella Durand, Mercedes Eng, Eshrat Erfanian, Whitney French, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Armand Garnet, Andrew McEwan, Sue Goyette, Laurie D. Graham, Adam Gunn, Branda Hillman, Jessica Houston, Gaye Jackson, Sheniz Janmohamed, Kaie Kellough, Kirby, Jónína Kirton, Cory Lavender, Jessica Le, Curtis LeBlanc, Christine Leclerc, Karen Lee, Carrianne Leung, Natalie Lim, Jessica Magonet, Sarah Mangle, Terese Mason Pierre, Kathleen McCracken, Yohani Mendis, Aude Moreau, Tiffany Morris, Erín Moure, Shelley Niro, Kunjana Parashar, Sarah Pereux, Barry Pottle, Jana Prikryl, Nikki Reimer, Ira Reinhart-Smith, Waubgeshig Rice, Erin Robinsong, Krishnakumar Sankaran, Emily Schultz, Jane Shi, Evie Shockley, Sue Sinclair, Adam Sol, Pablo Strauss, Anna Swanson, Christiane Vadnais, Isabella Wang, Rita Wong, and Jacob Wren.
