From World to Word to Body

Climate change and climate justice have a landscape intimately connected to our bodies, but we don’t always think of the story that way. In this workshop we will weave story threads that move between the world and the body in an effort to articulate what is at stake in the relationship between human and nonhuman being. Can we tell the stories of how we inhabit the world differently from the dead ends we have inherited? How might storytelling move away from occupation and colonization narratives toward more intersectional, polyphonic, and liberatory themes and forms? We will create narrative braids.

About Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the cli-fi bestselling novels Thrust and The Book of Joan, as well as the novel The Small Backs of Children and the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her Ted Talk “On the Beauty of Being a Misfit” has over 4.5 million views. She is the founder of Corporeal Writing in Oregon. She is a very good swimmer.