Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
@sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social
professor, chair, author, speaker
climate justice, environment, emotions, + activism
climate justice, environment, emotions, + activism
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Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Alexander Menrisky speaks with @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social about his recent book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. They discuss how consumption is tied to national identity and how ecofascism lurks in the everyday. 🇺🇸 🌳
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky - Edge Effects
Alexander Menrisky speaks about his new book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature.
edgeeffects.net
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Alexander Menrisky speaks with @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social about his recent book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. They discuss how consumption is tied to national identity and how ecofascism lurks in the everyday. 🇺🇸 🌳
Loved sitting with Katharine Wilkinson to talk about heart-centered climate work in this week’s episode of Climate Magic. And she’s got a new book coming out!
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“Thinking Like an Oak Tree” with Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
Podcast Episode · Climate Magic · 11/20/2025 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Loved sitting with Katharine Wilkinson to talk about heart-centered climate work in this week’s episode of Climate Magic. And she’s got a new book coming out!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Review for Climate Magic w/ @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social:
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
Climate Magic: podcast review
www.parentsforclimate.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Review for Climate Magic w/ @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social:
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
"I can choose to see my students' annoying behavior as rooted in alienation, dissociation, moral injury, fear of their futures.. Of course they would rather scroll their lives away on Tiktok. Wouldn’t you, given the world we’re handing over to them?" - open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
How the Dharma Taught Me How to Teach
What would happen if our teachers were motivated less by ego and individualism, and more by compassion and creating community?
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"I can choose to see my students' annoying behavior as rooted in alienation, dissociation, moral injury, fear of their futures.. Of course they would rather scroll their lives away on Tiktok. Wouldn’t you, given the world we’re handing over to them?" - open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
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Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all.
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Maps #Chicago #Toxic #Health #Lead #Pipes #Policy #Politics #Illinois
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Maps #Chicago #Toxic #Health #Lead #Pipes #Policy #Politics #Illinois
Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mapped
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
grist.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Why Climate Magic? "We are the magicians,"- Krista Franklin
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Why Climate Magic?
A new podcast on the emotional life of climate politics to support the climate-weary and leverage our hearts and minds in service of the planet.
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Why Climate Magic? "We are the magicians,"- Krista Franklin
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open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
How can we leverage our hearts and minds for better climate action and collective healing? This is the topic of my new podcast, Climate Magic, now available on Spotify and Apple.
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
podcasts.apple.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
How can we leverage our hearts and minds for better climate action and collective healing? This is the topic of my new podcast, Climate Magic, now available on Spotify and Apple.
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
"Should we be alarmed, not just by the material effects that will come from defunding climate research, but by the seemingly innocent dropping of the mere word 'climate change' from public discourse? And what are the benefits of unnaming climate?”
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Unnaming Climate
Aside from the material attacks on climate science and life on this planet, a more subtle discursive erasure is also afoot. What's lost--and gained--in unnaming climate?
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"Should we be alarmed, not just by the material effects that will come from defunding climate research, but by the seemingly innocent dropping of the mere word 'climate change' from public discourse? And what are the benefits of unnaming climate?”
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Has the word "climate change" lost its utility? Do we need to to speak of "climate change" to work for climate justice? Short answer: Yes, and no! Think this through with me- open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Unnaming Climate
Aside from the material attacks on climate science and life on this planet, a more subtle discursive erasure is also afoot. What's lost--and gained--in unnaming climate?
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Has the word "climate change" lost its utility? Do we need to to speak of "climate change" to work for climate justice? Short answer: Yes, and no! Think this through with me- open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Hurt People Hurt the Planet: "The punisher, misogynist, anthropocentrist, abuser, and hater are all taking up residence in me. They’re not just “out there” ... I can confront those forces right here, right now, at the frontlines of my own nervous system." open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Hurt People Hurt the Planet
Healing isn't just for yourself. It's a theory of change, and we need it more than ever as institutions fail us.
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hurt People Hurt the Planet: "The punisher, misogynist, anthropocentrist, abuser, and hater are all taking up residence in me. They’re not just “out there” ... I can confront those forces right here, right now, at the frontlines of my own nervous system." open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Can we make giving a shit about others cool again? open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
The Solution to All the Problems
Can we make giving a shit about others cool again?
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Can we make giving a shit about others cool again? open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
I got my hackles up with that Princeton letter from Dept. of Commerce, citing "climate anxiety" as a reason to cut climate research. sarahjaquetteray.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
The Weaponization of Youth Climate Anxiety
How the right is using young people's worries about their future to destroy the planet
sarahjaquetteray.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I got my hackles up with that Princeton letter from Dept. of Commerce, citing "climate anxiety" as a reason to cut climate research. sarahjaquetteray.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
From "Ok, boomer" to the Third Act, it's good to see this shift in the role of boomers in activism. Let's keep moving toward intergenerational coalition-building! Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social and @akayawind.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare
If you're over 60, you viscerally get the need for, say, the Clean Air Act, functioning Social Security and affordable dolls at Christmas.
www.latimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
From "Ok, boomer" to the Third Act, it's good to see this shift in the role of boomers in activism. Let's keep moving toward intergenerational coalition-building! Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social and @akayawind.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Let's get money out of politics so we can get people in office who represent the people. Latest news on climate politics of Americans, plus how many Americans disapprove of current immigration and economy policies, suggests we aren't voting in alignment with our politics.
NEW REPORT: Our latest Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy report is out today. Most registered voters oppose eliminating government programs on global warming like FEMA - explore the findings here:
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2025
Americans continue to support action to fight climate change
climatecommunication.yale.edu
June 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Let's get money out of politics so we can get people in office who represent the people. Latest news on climate politics of Americans, plus how many Americans disapprove of current immigration and economy policies, suggests we aren't voting in alignment with our politics.
What's in a name? "‘Climate change’ sounds like a phrase that a government agency might employ to justify new fishing regulations or a phenomenon a scholar from outside the community might study... too political, too cold, too loaded to map onto everyday life.” www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
In N.C., Climate Change Is Happening—Just Don't Call It That
Rising seas and stronger storms are reshaping coastal North Carolina, but many avoid terms like climate change even as they live its effects.
www.theassemblync.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What's in a name? "‘Climate change’ sounds like a phrase that a government agency might employ to justify new fishing regulations or a phenomenon a scholar from outside the community might study... too political, too cold, too loaded to map onto everyday life.” www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
Dana Fisher's survey results from NoKings events Saturday. "Consistent with the Resistance to the Trump Administration during its first term, the majority of hosts and participants were female, predominantly white, and highly educated". danarfisher.com/2025/06/15/t...
The Resistance Rises to Declare #NoKings
On June 14th, while Donald Trump held a military parade in our nation’s Capitol, millions of people across the US mobilized to protest the actions of the Trump Administration and its policies…
danarfisher.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dana Fisher's survey results from NoKings events Saturday. "Consistent with the Resistance to the Trump Administration during its first term, the majority of hosts and participants were female, predominantly white, and highly educated". danarfisher.com/2025/06/15/t...
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Bsky doesn't have enough users to change discourse by itself. But clean UI/lack of algos probably makes it underrated as an organizing tool for highly engaged Ds & lefties. Protests happen, TikTok/Insta then extend reach to normies. Minimized coverage because of media cuts/billionaire throttling.
"Our ongoing research on protests in the US reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017."
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
wagingnonviolence.org
June 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Bsky doesn't have enough users to change discourse by itself. But clean UI/lack of algos probably makes it underrated as an organizing tool for highly engaged Ds & lefties. Protests happen, TikTok/Insta then extend reach to normies. Minimized coverage because of media cuts/billionaire throttling.
Burnout and fatalism are everywhere, and it feels good to be in community with people in the nonprofit/philanthropy world. Thanks to @jimrendon.bsky.social for being such a great interviewer and writer for this piece! www.philanthropy.com/article/feel...
Feeling Burned Out, Overwhelmed, and Outmatched? This Professor Has Some Advice
Finding community is the “holy grail” to keep going when you’re trying to solve social problems against what seem like impossible odds. Joy is important, too.
www.philanthropy.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Burnout and fatalism are everywhere, and it feels good to be in community with people in the nonprofit/philanthropy world. Thanks to @jimrendon.bsky.social for being such a great interviewer and writer for this piece! www.philanthropy.com/article/feel...
Climate Magic's first episode with @jyotimishra.bsky.social aired yesterday, on climate mental health, wildfire and trauma, and collective healing. Follow the show! open.spotify.com/episode/74sd...
Dr. Jyoti Mishra: Neuroscience vs. Climate Change
Climate Magic · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Climate Magic's first episode with @jyotimishra.bsky.social aired yesterday, on climate mental health, wildfire and trauma, and collective healing. Follow the show! open.spotify.com/episode/74sd...
excited to launch a new show on our local radio program, and you can access it on KHSU.org, talking to smartie pants peeps about the emotional and cognitive life of climate politics: www.khsu.org/show/climate...
Climate Magic
It's hard to get your head around climate change. And it's not just you - our brains simply aren't wired to think about problems at that scale. And why would they be? Understandably, this can lead to ...
www.khsu.org
June 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
excited to launch a new show on our local radio program, and you can access it on KHSU.org, talking to smartie pants peeps about the emotional and cognitive life of climate politics: www.khsu.org/show/climate...
this will be an awesome opportunity.
Just one week remains until our exciting collaboration with @goodgriefnetwork.bsky.social! Join us at @cwclub.bsky.social on June 4 for a special film screening and climate anxiety workshop. Tickets available through our website:
Good Grief: The 10 Steps – Film Screening and Climate Anxiety Workshop
www.climateone.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
this will be an awesome opportunity.
a great episode on climate anxiety and the kid question with Jade Sasser and Elizabeth Bechard: www.npr.org/2025/05/27/1...
Climate anxiety is changing how we think about kids. Should it? : Short Wave
Gen Z and younger millennials are the most climate literate generations the world has ever seen. They learned about climate change in school; now, it's part of how they plan for the future, including ...
www.npr.org
May 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a great episode on climate anxiety and the kid question with Jade Sasser and Elizabeth Bechard: www.npr.org/2025/05/27/1...
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NEW: A majority of registered voters want federal agencies like the CDC, NIH, and FEMA to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming. Learn more in our new climate note:
A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming
55% said federal agencies should do more to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
climatecommunication.yale.edu
May 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: A majority of registered voters want federal agencies like the CDC, NIH, and FEMA to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming. Learn more in our new climate note: