How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change was published earlier this year – a labour of love, community, friendship — and also research!
My co-author Jen Mae Hamilton and I, and our friend, collaborator and book illustrator Tessa Zettel, have been very excited to share this new book with friends, colleagues and future readers! So far these welcome parties have included stops in Wollongong, Newcastle and Sydney (all in Australia) and Vancouver. Kelowna and Montreal book launches are around the corner! We would love to see you at one!
Upcoming festivities:
Join us in Kelowna for a backyard book party launch on Tuesday May 19! Organized by my colleagues and friends in the Faculty for Creative and Critical Studies, I am so delighted to share this book in the context of community, friendship and care! If you are a last-minute joiner, email Jodi (Jodi.lord@ubc.ca) to get the address!
Or, if you find yourself in Montreal on Monday June 22, please join us at a double book welcome party for How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change and Elee Kraljii Gardiner’s new collection of poetry, sometimes, forest. (As well as currently serving as Vancouver’s Poet Laureate, Elee was one of our remarkable pod-heads at FEELers Summer Camp last year!)
The Montreal launch will take place at Bar Milton-Parc (3714 Ave du Parc) from 6-9 pm, with guest performances from Anne Bourne, Lindsay Kelley (both past FEELed Lab visiting artist/researchers) and Krusa Neimligers (who designed the FEELers poster and logo). And your contributions to the open mic portion of the night are so welcome!
Past delights:
The dynamic duo of Elee and Astrida already manifested itself at our joint book welcome two weeks ago at the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library. What a delight to be among an amazing poetry community, talking about the weather and other not-at-all-mundane things!
Meanwhile, Jen and Tessa have been sharing How to Weather Together goodness across the eastern seaboard of Australia!
Tessa and Jen at a walkshop/booklaunch (co-organized by former FEELed Lab visiting artist and FEELers pod head Therese Keogh!) in Newcastle, NSW:
At a bookshop launch in Jen’s hometown of Wollongong, NSW:
And at the big launch in Sydney at Bad Press – who printed the gorgeous art print insets that Tessa designed for our gallery show at the New England Regional Art Museum (November 2025-February 2026):
Other Weatherings:
In the meantime, if you can’t make it out to these events, but want to learn more about weathering, we highly recommend checking out this amazing short documentary produced by our friend Fiona Probyn-Rapsey and GoProf films! Fiona makes films about academic work for non-academic audiences, and we were so thrilled to be able to work with her on this.
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We would be delighted to continue sharing this work via workshops, book welcomes, readings, or other events elsewhere – so please be in touch! We would love to hear your feedback, too.
(Finally, if you are in any doubt about how excited I am about all of this, I invite you to count the number of sentences in this FEELed Note that end with an exclamation point! I was going to edit it… and then thought: nah, let the enthusiasm speak for itself… <3)
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