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Denali Sai Nalamalapu
@denalisai.bsky.social
climate organizer + comic artist in Southwest Virginia ✦ my graphic novel HOLLER is out via Timber Press https://tinyurl.com/orderholler ✦ they/them
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Picture + Panel is coming up on 8/4! Mattie Lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com and Denali Sai Nalamalapu @denalisai.bsky.social discuss resistance and resilience
Sign up at www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-details/picture-panel-resistance-and-resilience-with-mattie-lubchansky-and-denali-sai-nalamalapu
July 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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We’re holding so much grief, fear, and uncertainty these days. Are you feeling it too? 💙🫂

Join us next Tuesday, 8/5, from 7–9 PM ET for a free event with @denalisai & @madeleine_jubilee_saito. No art experience required!
🔗 RSVP to get the Zoom link
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July 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Apparently I needed to ugly cry this morning.

This hit me like a fucking ton of bricks in a universe where gravity is a thousand times stronger than here on Earth.

Give it a listen eh, and it is my hope you will see why Andrea was and always will be my favourite poet.
Andrea Gibson recites 'Love Letter From the Afterlife' in final TV interview
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
youtu.be
July 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I'm truly honored that my book GASLIGHT has been named winner of the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Award presented by @selc.bsky.social.

Its David v. Goliath tale of grassroots power overcoming corporate energy interests seems more relevant than ever.

www.southernenvironment.org/news/celebra...
Celebrating the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Award winners
The Southern Environmental Law Center congratulates this year’s winners of its 2025 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award. Through their work, winners Jonathan Mingle, Jared Kofsky, Maia Rosenfe...
www.southernenvironment.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New this week in @washunbound.bsky.social: check out our #Pride booklist celebrating #LGBTQ+ authors across the DC area with poetry, fiction, and nonfiction rec's w/ links to local events (and many more in our local guide). Happy Pride and happy reading!
www.washington-unbound.com/bookreviews/...
Washington Unbound Pride 2025 Booklist — Washington Unbound
In the current political climate, recognizing June as Pride Month is more important than ever. At Washington Unbound we want to celebrate and uplift queer voices in the best way we know. A booklist!
www.washington-unbound.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We need Virginia climate champions in office NOW who will resist Trump & Youngkin's attack's on climate progress and ensure we transition to clean energy! www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
House budget threatens billions in clean energy investment in Virginia
The state’s solar, offshore wind, and manufacturing jobs would be jeopardized if the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill clears the Senate in its current…
www.canarymedia.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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RESOURCE: Communities in Appalachia engaged in years of mass resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline and now their campaign has been documented in graphic novel form! Check out HOLLER from @denalisai.bsky.social an organizer and comic artist embedded in that struggle. #ClimateSky #GreenSky
Holler
An "important piece of activist art", this beautiful graphic memoir tells the story of six hopeful activists in Appalachia who had the courage to resist agai...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Gaza is not starving. Palestinians in Gaza are being deliberately starved by Israel and its allies.
May 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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“Emergency Management / Disaster Starter pack by@samlmontano.bsky...
People who do work related to emergency management/ disasters and talk about it!

• Dr. Samantha Montano
@samImontano.bsky.social
Working on disaster justice & the climate crisis.
Emergency Management PhD.”

go.bsky.app/DsHYNgg
May 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It has been so wonderful to hear from people that have already read their copies of HOLLER! You can get your copy here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/denal...
Holler
An "important piece of activist art", this beautiful graphic memoir tells the story of six hopeful activists in Appalachia who had the courage to resist agai...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Such a fun interview with @marciamacomber.bsky.social this morning about Holler!
TUNE IN MONDAY to the Morning Show on @ksvysonoma.bsky.social 8-10amPT. Guests> Larry Barnett, @denalisai.bsky.social of "Holler: a Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance"; Eric Marshall, closet guru; Jeanne Grove, attorney at @nixonpeabody.bsky.social & Ashley Burnett. Listen in at 91.3fm or ksvy.org.
May 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving
Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can’t Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving
Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha has just been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his essays about the Palestinian experience in the face of the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza. He...
www.democracynow.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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"The overall risk of threats and hazards occurring in the US has increased since this administration took over, while the capacity of our emergency management system is being diminished" @samlmontano.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#climaterisk #emergencymanagement
Trump cuts will lead to more deaths in disasters, expert warns: ‘It is really scary’
Layoffs and funding cuts to Fema and Noaa will impact how they predict and respond to disasters, warns professor Samantha Montano
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"How do you cover an existential threat when your industry is facing an existential threat of its own?" @neeldhanesha.com for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-co...
A conference of twin crises
At the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, one question reigned: How do you cover an existential threat when your industry is facing an existential threat of its own?
www.niemanlab.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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May is jam packed with fun events for all ages! We can't wait!
April 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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For #EarthDay we’ve launched a new series in our “New Oil Colonialism” project, comparing the benefits Total claims it’s bringing to Africa to the experiences of communities on the ground. First up, a new form of junk “green” credits: drilled.media/news/total-b...
TotalEnergies Promises “Net Gain Biodiversity” as it Drills in Uganda’s Largest National Park
Total claims it can make up for the biodiversity impacts of drilling in Uganda’s largest national park by preserving biodiversity elsewhere, but local advocates aren’t buying it.
drilled.media
April 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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A potentially game-changing climate story has been hiding in plain sight — until now.

Today marks the launch of #The89Percent Project, a yearlong global journalistic effort to highlight the vast majority of people who care about climate change and want their governments to do something about it.
April 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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"Buried in the investigation's court filings are the names of one of the world's biggest publicly-traded oil companies and one of its longtime lobbyists: ExxonMobil and DCI Group."

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between the victims and an alleged attacker
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The state relies on us creating a dichotomy between "good protesters" and "bad protesters" and it relies on a misinterpretation of nonviolence in order to get us to do it. When we resist a fascist state, we must resist the fascist state's logic.

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
Without the Awful Roar of Its Many Waters
or: False Nonviolence Won't Save You
margaretkilljoy.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The fossil fuel industry is pushing Congress for immunity from climate lawsuits that could force the industry to pay billions for misleading the public about the dangers of fossil fuels — attempting to lock in the same legal shield that protects gun manufacturers.
Like the Gun Industry, Big Oil Wants Legal Immunity
The fossil fuel industry is pushing Congress for immunity from climate lawsuits that could force the industry to pay billions for misleading the public about the dangers of fossil fuels — attempting t...
jacobin.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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“The vitriol of those in power has been destabilizing.”

As the full weight of the federal government comes after trans people, families are scrambling to protect their kids from the onslaught.

Their stories + @msjpauly.bsky.social + @hencarnell.bsky.social's gripping report.
"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"
How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids
www.motherjones.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Teaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety.

*Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
Trump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates ‘Climate Anxiety’
The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The Trump admin is gutting cutting-edge climate + health research.

I spoke with a scientist who lost funding for a 3-year, $4.2 million center to study climate change and the progression of Alzheimer's.

It's just one of ~20 centers like it now at risk: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How does climate change affect our brains? Trump’s NIH just cut funding to study it.
"We are all in this because we want to help understand and prevent disease...it's truly devastating."
www.motherjones.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM