Jule Avian Wren
@coyotetrail.bsky.social
Writer and teacher (MFA/PhD) “Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey (Cambridge, 2025) I’m out running at 4:30 am, regardless Website: https://juliannewarren-avian.studio/ 📍Fairbanks
Hard conversations are also grounding conversations that help you find words, name emotions, and prepare for action. Like the conversation with Omar El Akkad, this interview with Claudia Rankine took my breath away. Asked me questions that I've been thinking about, but in a more alive way.
Don't miss Claudia Rankine's return to Between the Covers to discuss her powerful new book TRIAGE Audio⚡: milkweed.org/between-the-... @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Update on the 2026 wildfire season around the Arctic in the latest post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. On Substack and Beehiiv. H/T @mparrington.bsky.social #akwx #Arctic #Canada #Wildfire alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/july-2026-... alaska-arctic-climate.beehiiv.com/p/july-2026-...
ICE active in downtown Fairbanks as of 7am Friday, July 31. 9+ male agents in ball caps, plaid flannel or dark jackets. Dark SUVs. Not sure how long these updates will be allowed on social media— join Signal and dm if you have questions. #Alaska #Fairbanks #AlaskaSky #FuckICE
Outside oilgarchs want Alaskans to think we need them, but it's not true. Renewables are cheaper + faster to build, while fossil fuel execs are left asking for subsidies in order to stay competitive. It's time to invest in real energy solutions, not pipe dreams. www.newsminer.com/news/local_n...
Fairbanks organizations protest Alaska LNG project as developers eye third special session
As the Golden Days street festival drew near its end Saturday, some Fairbanks organizations floated their opposition to the proposed Alaska LNG project — literally.
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“There is no sustainable agriculture without bees….” Standing among the hives on the damaged rooftop, al-Dabba says the bees remind him of the people of Gaza. “The bees are like the people here,” he says. “They continue working despite the hardship. They always find their way back to the hive.”
Ibrahim al-Dabba continues to care for his colonies despite losing his home and most of his hives and equipment
We are looking for a Membership Associate for our Landback Action Network! This position is remote, but applicants must reside in the U.S. and be available for occasional travel. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Saturday, August 15th, 2026 ✍🏽 Apply today: ndnco.cc/lanassociate
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
Before fascism had a name, it had a history. Final episode out tomorrow!
A thing you have always known can all of the sudden jolt you into a particular clarity: How ludicrous is my inherited story that the creator of all creation is any one gender. And. How incommensurable must be the worlds of children taught the one true god is their gender versus not.
In news of the mundane: I am stunned. Out of umpteen shades of white paint, the one I happened to choose is indistinguishable from what the previous residents of this house used.
NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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The country is celebrating 250 years, but they're leaving out half the story. This Wed July 15, 4pm ET/1pm PT, I'm joining The Natural History Museum for "The Other 250: America from Below" — a free roundtable on the counter-histories being erased. RSVP today! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Other 250: America from Below. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This virtual roundtable will explore the contested terrain of the United States' 250th birthday—and the counter-histories that can help us confront the authoritarian politics of the present. What vision...
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“Modelled on The Fourth World: An Indian Reality, the 1974 classic by George Manuel & Michael Posluns, I Will Live for Both of Us [by Joan (Paningaya’naaq) Scottie, Inuk activist, w/2 coauthors] brings to life resource governance on Inuit lands in a way that no detached academic account ever could.”
"I Will Live for Both of Us is a well-written and engaging examination of Indigenous struggles to protect culture and land within and against a colonial and land claims framework." - Andrew Procter niche-canada.org/2023/07/21/r... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous #indigenoushistory
“Female orcas teach hunting techniques and pass on cultural traditions, but I think that maybe, they might just also simply enjoy being alive without there being a need for ensuring the reproductive or cultural survival of their species.”
“'In tandem' with growing orca captivity rates in the 1960s and 1970s 'heteronormative and patriarchal cultural norms began to be transposed onto these marine mammals.'" - Teja Sosteric niche-canada.org/2024/07/08/a... #envhist #histsi #animalstudies #orcas #queerecology
By Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, the former mayor of Nuiqsut and executive director of the Inupiat group Grandmothers Growing Goodness. www.adn.com/opinions/202...
Opinion: The Arctic is being pushed too hard, too fast and too far
Federal deregulation and more lease sales should not sideline communities whose food, water, health and future are at stake.
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This was the warmest June on record for the Arctic overall. Details in the latest post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. Available on Substack and Beehiiv. #akwx #Arctic #Climate #Summer2026 alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/june-2026-... alaska-arctic-climate.beehiiv.com/p/june-2026-...
Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Friday, July 10th, at 12:30pm EDT on Instagram Live @tinaadcock.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about knowledge production and masculinity in her book, A Cold Colonialism. Follow NiCHE on Insta here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
What freedom by exploding things? I have never been a fan of 7-4 fireworks, not even as a kid.
I sat down with @KOSU to talk about my new podcast FIRST AMERICA & why Native history isn't a sidebar—it's THE story. www.kosu.org/rebecca-nagl...
Cherokee podcaster uses critical Indigenous lens to examine U.S. History in 'First America'
Rebecca Nagle shares her Independence Day plans and breaks down what you didn’t learn in American history class in conversation with KOSU’s Sarah Liese.
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Yes. This. Is. Resonating. Teaching and writing in conservation back then, I got some flack for criticizing “footprints” for what sound like same plus an array of reasons within a “sustainability” framework, which I also critiqued….(Who or what is being sustained, by whom….? And round we go….)
From a piece I built out of a Bluesky thread for The Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
Next week: a virtual training with @prisonculture.bsky.social! Come identify your most sustainable & effective role in social change—not based on what feels most urgent or visible, but on what fits your skills, capacities, relationships, & lived realities. 🗓️ July 8 🕰️ 7pm ET/4pm PT ✍️ Register:
Find Your Role in the Work With Mariame Kaba (Learn To Do #1) · EducateUS
This session with visionary, legendary organizer and activist Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This ‘Till We Free Us and other books, helps participants identify their most sustainable and effective role...
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The June Native News Roundup is out today. Tribes sued the federal government, reclaimed ancestral land, and protected sacred sites—without asking permission. open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...
June Native News Roundup
Tribes didn’t ask for permission this month. They sued the federal government, reclaimed ancestral land, and protected sacred sites. Here’s what happened in Indian Country.
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Proposal that we retire the word "reckoning" with respect to the U.S.
#Pride #Pridefest #Fairbanks with the powerful Wasabi! Check out their recent album Alaskamiuŋuruŋa m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNW...
What they didn’t learn was this: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by the British oil giant BP — one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change.
“Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper.” -Chris Mottershead, BP climate adviser Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study @themadstone.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social @katieworth.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social @propublica.org