How to Survive

Essays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds of love, responsibility, and reciprocity, encouraging consideration of our inherent interdependencewith one another, with other creatures, and with the planet itself. This anthology looks at how life, including plant, animal, and human life, can thrive through acts of reciprocity and harmony. Through essays, visual narratives, and interviews, contributorswomen and non-binary artists and culture bearersconsider ideas of interdependence, place-based knowledge, attentiveness, liberatory imagination, mending, repair, and activism, offering visions of hope and adaptation, as well as novel ways of understanding our responsibilities to the planet.