{"id":28,"date":"2023-05-02T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T00:33:03","slug":"class-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/class-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Excerpt from a student&#8217;s writing reflection (April 2023):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I hope the piece expresses the complexity of thought I\u2019ve put into this topic &#8211; and that the reader is made aware of how I don\u2019t really have solid answers to give.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In their final writing portfolio, students were invited to submit a short story as well as a creative non-fiction piece. The topics they chose include hope and oppression, natural disasters and the everyday of climate, as well as the complexities of personal activism and community-building. Below, you can find excerpts of their work and reflection process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Portfolios<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lyndsey Bryden<\/strong> wrote about her <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/06\/06\/vicariously-vegan\/\">struggle with veganism<\/a> and a diver&#8217;s meditations in a speculative climate future<\/li>\n<li><strong>Radical Creasy<\/strong> wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/25\/love-in-the-void-at-the-end-of-the-world-by-radical-creasy\/\">anti-natalism<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/25\/lily-and-aster-at-the-end-of-the-world-by-radical-creasy\/\">a mother<\/a>&#8216;s attempts to make peace with climate realities<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chlo\u00eb Fraser\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about family curses, borders, and compounded vulnerability<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Habermehl<\/strong> wrote about the urge to take beautiful, incomplete pictures and sisterhood through storms<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winston Irwin\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about the shock of the sudden evacuation and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/25\/ciliwung-the-story-of-short-run-vs-long-run-survival-conundrum\/\">river rehabilitation<\/a> in marginalized communities<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Kapend <\/strong>wrote about the trickle-down effects of drought and living a life of luxury<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pauline Kraut\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about finding one&#8217;s place in climate activism and making sense of the world as a diver<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew O&#8217;Hearn\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about a nation at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/29\/we-spent-the-night\/\">war for water<\/a> and burnt family homes in Australia&#8217;s wildfires<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nina Robertson\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about the question of children and small disasters in the face of climate change<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luiza Salek\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about the role of art, non-linearity, and love in a broken world<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sanchita Sannigrahi\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about the struggle to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/25\/the-extra-marital-affair\/\">find value<\/a> in sustainability and flooding in her hometown<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anna Shubina\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about learning to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/25\/my-home-planet\/\">recognize injustice<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/25\/climate-puzzles\/\">belonging<\/a> in the climate movement<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sherry Yu\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about old age at the end of the world and climate care as an act of love<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mackenzie Kuenz\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/writingclimatechange\/2023\/05\/25\/duas-cidades-two-cities\/\">urban injustice<\/a> and denial in front of the fire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from a student&#8217;s writing reflection (April 2023): I hope the piece expresses the complexity of thought I\u2019ve put into this topic &#8211; and that the reader is made aware of how I don\u2019t really have solid answers to give. 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