Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe Jasminne Mendez As the sun set on

As the sun set on the shortest day of the year

As tensions rise sky high

in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women

who she names Marshmallow

Philip Vera Cruz

Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe Jasminne Mendez As the sun set onIn these hard hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes. After three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressive visions of a better world are now increasingly circumscribed by ecological and social breakdown. The geophysical forces unleashed by carbon fueled global