Join professor Nick Winges-Yanez in conversation with artist and activist Naomi Ortiz on their new book Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice, which offers potent insights about the complexity of interdependence, calling readers to deepen their understanding of what it means to witness and love an endangered world. By centering visual art and poetry Ortiz will explore several topics including mutual aid, relationship with place, and listening to the wisdom of our bodies.
Naomi Ortiz (they/she) is a Disabled Mestize poet, writer, facilitator, and visual artist who explores cultivating care and connection within states of stress. Ortiz's new book, Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice, offers potent insights about the complexity of interdependence, calling readers to deepen their understanding of what it means to witness and love an endangered world.
Their non-fiction book, Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice provides informative tools and insightful strategies for diverse communities on addressing burnout. Ortiz is also a co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Every Place on the Map is Disabled: Poems and Essays on Disability.
For their work to reimagine the future of arts and culture they were selected by both the Ford and Mellon foundations as a 2022 U.S. Artist Disability Futures Fellow and they are a Reclaiming the US/Mexico Border Narrative Awardee. Find them at: www.NaomiOrtiz.com