Wen Stephenson
@learning2live.bsky.social
Journalist, essayist, activist. Climate justice correspondent @TheNation.com. Contributor, @TheBaffler.com etc.
New book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-learning-to-live-in-the-dark
New book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-learning-to-live-in-the-dark
Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay
September 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay
Gulf South to Global South
Lake Charles resident: "We're not going to stop fighting!"
From yesterday's Toxic Billionaires Tour of Manhattan, with stops at Chubb, AIG, Mitsubishi (shown here), Blackrock.
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social
@planetoverprofit.org
@ran.org
@oilchange.bsky.social
Lake Charles resident: "We're not going to stop fighting!"
From yesterday's Toxic Billionaires Tour of Manhattan, with stops at Chubb, AIG, Mitsubishi (shown here), Blackrock.
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social
@planetoverprofit.org
@ran.org
@oilchange.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Gulf South to Global South
Lake Charles resident: "We're not going to stop fighting!"
From yesterday's Toxic Billionaires Tour of Manhattan, with stops at Chubb, AIG, Mitsubishi (shown here), Blackrock.
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social
@planetoverprofit.org
@ran.org
@oilchange.bsky.social
Lake Charles resident: "We're not going to stop fighting!"
From yesterday's Toxic Billionaires Tour of Manhattan, with stops at Chubb, AIG, Mitsubishi (shown here), Blackrock.
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social
@planetoverprofit.org
@ran.org
@oilchange.bsky.social
These comrades from Gulf South communities in TX & LA don't have the luxury of giving up. Fossil capital is killing them right now.
They came all the way to NYC to tell Chubb, AIG, Blackrock, and Citi to stop insuring & financing crimes against humanity from the Gulf South to the Global South.
They came all the way to NYC to tell Chubb, AIG, Blackrock, and Citi to stop insuring & financing crimes against humanity from the Gulf South to the Global South.
July 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
These comrades from Gulf South communities in TX & LA don't have the luxury of giving up. Fossil capital is killing them right now.
They came all the way to NYC to tell Chubb, AIG, Blackrock, and Citi to stop insuring & financing crimes against humanity from the Gulf South to the Global South.
They came all the way to NYC to tell Chubb, AIG, Blackrock, and Citi to stop insuring & financing crimes against humanity from the Gulf South to the Global South.
The final chapter of *Learning to Live in the Dark* (@haymarketbooks.org) - www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l... - is a new essay called "The Desperate of the Earth," in which I read Frantz Fanon in the context of Gaza and global climate justice. Here's where it ends up:
July 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The final chapter of *Learning to Live in the Dark* (@haymarketbooks.org) - www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l... - is a new essay called "The Desperate of the Earth," in which I read Frantz Fanon in the context of Gaza and global climate justice. Here's where it ends up:
Yeah, I'll always regret that I was far too polite back in 2014...
@thenation.com
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July 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Yeah, I'll always regret that I was far too polite back in 2014...
@thenation.com
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@thenation.com
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shhhh, don't tell Harvard, but there are radicals on the loose across the street at (independent) Harvard Book Store.
LFG @haymarketbooks.org!
LFG @haymarketbooks.org!
July 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
shhhh, don't tell Harvard, but there are radicals on the loose across the street at (independent) Harvard Book Store.
LFG @haymarketbooks.org!
LFG @haymarketbooks.org!
"We're working for something that brings us together beyond blasphemies and prayers. It's all that matters." -Camus
"Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?" -Fanon
Learning to Live in the Dark
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"Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?" -Fanon
Learning to Live in the Dark
@haymarketbooks.org
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
July 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"We're working for something that brings us together beyond blasphemies and prayers. It's all that matters." -Camus
"Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?" -Fanon
Learning to Live in the Dark
@haymarketbooks.org
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
"Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?" -Fanon
Learning to Live in the Dark
@haymarketbooks.org
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
"even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination..." -Hannah Arendt, 1968
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June 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination..." -Hannah Arendt, 1968
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If nothing short of revolution can salvage the possibility of a better world, and yet if a viable revolutionary-left politics is nowhere on the horizon, then what does a life of radical commitment look like in the shadow of catastrophes that will not wait?
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June 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If nothing short of revolution can salvage the possibility of a better world, and yet if a viable revolutionary-left politics is nowhere on the horizon, then what does a life of radical commitment look like in the shadow of catastrophes that will not wait?
wenstephenson.substack.com/p/learning-t...
wenstephenson.substack.com/p/learning-t...
It's publication day for my new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe.
A few thoughts on sending this book into the world, along with an excerpt from its opening pages:
open.substack.com/pub/wensteph...
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www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
A few thoughts on sending this book into the world, along with an excerpt from its opening pages:
open.substack.com/pub/wensteph...
@haymarketbooks.org
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It's publication day for my new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe.
A few thoughts on sending this book into the world, along with an excerpt from its opening pages:
open.substack.com/pub/wensteph...
@haymarketbooks.org
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
A few thoughts on sending this book into the world, along with an excerpt from its opening pages:
open.substack.com/pub/wensteph...
@haymarketbooks.org
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
My new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe, went to press this week.
I'm inexpressibly grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for publishing it and to Amitav Ghosh, Bill McKibben, Anthony Rogers-Wright, and Gus Speth for endorsing it.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
I'm inexpressibly grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for publishing it and to Amitav Ghosh, Bill McKibben, Anthony Rogers-Wright, and Gus Speth for endorsing it.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
April 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe, went to press this week.
I'm inexpressibly grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for publishing it and to Amitav Ghosh, Bill McKibben, Anthony Rogers-Wright, and Gus Speth for endorsing it.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
I'm inexpressibly grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for publishing it and to Amitav Ghosh, Bill McKibben, Anthony Rogers-Wright, and Gus Speth for endorsing it.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
Hundreds of @harvard.edu professors call for resistance of ‘attacks on American universities’
"Faculty are afraid for the university,” Brown said.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
"Faculty are afraid for the university,” Brown said.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
March 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hundreds of @harvard.edu professors call for resistance of ‘attacks on American universities’
"Faculty are afraid for the university,” Brown said.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
"Faculty are afraid for the university,” Brown said.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
Big crowd right now at Powder House Sq. Park by the Tufts campus to protest Rumeysa Ozturk's abduction by ICE last night.
March 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Big crowd right now at Powder House Sq. Park by the Tufts campus to protest Rumeysa Ozturk's abduction by ICE last night.
There's nothing better than a cold clear morning after a snow. Even on a day like today, there is this.
I'm fighting for my fellow humans, but also for this, and for the deer who left their tracks in this snow, and who need the snow and the woods more than I do. It's all worth fighting for.
I'm fighting for my fellow humans, but also for this, and for the deer who left their tracks in this snow, and who need the snow and the woods more than I do. It's all worth fighting for.
January 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
There's nothing better than a cold clear morning after a snow. Even on a day like today, there is this.
I'm fighting for my fellow humans, but also for this, and for the deer who left their tracks in this snow, and who need the snow and the woods more than I do. It's all worth fighting for.
I'm fighting for my fellow humans, but also for this, and for the deer who left their tracks in this snow, and who need the snow and the woods more than I do. It's all worth fighting for.
When Alice quoted Mike Davis at the end of the interview, it just about brought tears to my eyes:
January 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
When Alice quoted Mike Davis at the end of the interview, it just about brought tears to my eyes:
This, I'm afraid, is right:
January 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This, I'm afraid, is right:
This is why I read @daviddark.bsky.social ...
December 16, 2024 at 3:18 PM
This is why I read @daviddark.bsky.social ...
Keep calm, carry on, nothing to see here...
December 13, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Keep calm, carry on, nothing to see here...
"...the current political culture of the broadly construed Left doesn’t necessarily allow for an interrogation." @keeanga.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 8:19 PM
"...the current political culture of the broadly construed Left doesn’t necessarily allow for an interrogation." @keeanga.bsky.social
And he goes on to say, referring to the "train wreck" of #COP29...
full interview here: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
full interview here: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
November 25, 2024 at 4:47 PM
And he goes on to say, referring to the "train wreck" of #COP29...
full interview here: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
full interview here: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
Now that #COP29 is behind us, I want to highlight another crucial point @tathanasiou.bsky.social made in my recent @thenation.com interview... www.thenation.com/article/envi...
November 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Now that #COP29 is behind us, I want to highlight another crucial point @tathanasiou.bsky.social made in my recent @thenation.com interview... www.thenation.com/article/envi...
from my interview with @tathanasiou.bsky.social on the new Civil Society Equity Review report
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
from my interview with @tathanasiou.bsky.social on the new Civil Society Equity Review report
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM