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Climate reality is in black and white, the psychology of it not quite.

With motherhood, my climate emotions took a new shade of real. — January 2023. The convergence of three events put the way I feel and how others might feel about climate change in perspective: Floods in Los Angeles. Cauliflowers from the farmers market. And my daughter’s first-year checkup. But first, let me rewind to 2020. Early days of the pandemic, when everyone…

Climate Change

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Climate reality is in black and white, the psychology of it not quite.
Climate reality is in black and white, the psychology of it not quite.
Climate Change

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Solastalgia Diaries

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Earth’s Distress Calls in the Psyche

Presented at the Planetary Health Alliance Annual Meeting 2021 — “We mindspeak so you may only hear truth.” — Ursula K. LeGuin, City of Illusions. 1. Self I was burnt out. Art became my therapy. I would start with a line and let my hand go wherever it wanted to go. By the time I returned to the starting point of that…

Climate Change

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Earth’s Distress Calls in the Psyche
Earth’s Distress Calls in the Psyche
Climate Change

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Solastalgia Diaries

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Earth Radio or The Rise of Planetary Psychodynamics: an early draft.

Last year I wrote about solastalgia, the psychic pain of climate change. I interpreted human emotional spikes as Earth’s way of communicating with the organisms that live upon it. Manifesto of a Solastalgic Artist Artist is a translator. She receives the distress calls of the Planet. She alone can trap those abstract cues into…medium.com I compare the nature of the planetary dialogue with the transmissions that run our human bodies. Take, for example, white blood…

Solastalgia

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Earth Radio or The Rise of Planetary Psychodynamics: an early draft.
Earth Radio or The Rise of Planetary Psychodynamics: an early draft.
Solastalgia

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Manifesto of a Solastalgic Artist

Solastalgia: A form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home. _ Glenn Albrecht Earth is a living body. Artist is a translator. The artist’s body is the first to converse with Earth’s body through the language of turbulence, making their ailments one and the same…

Solastalgia

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Manifesto of a Solastalgic Artist
Manifesto of a Solastalgic Artist
Solastalgia

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Aug 11

The hidden climate story in Reservation Dogs S1 E6

And its counterpart in real life. — It’s needless to say Reservation Dogs is full of hidden climate stories, f***, the whole thing is a climate story without ever having to use the c-word, because the stories of indigenous communities across the globe are inextricable from our existential predicament. But I want to focus on a specific…

Tv Reviews

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The hidden climate story in Reservation Dogs S1 E6
The hidden climate story in Reservation Dogs S1 E6
Tv Reviews

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May 30

The Hidden Climate Story in Lee Sung Jin’s “BEEF”

✋ Spoiler Alert What makes road rage so sticky and juicy that it can take over any sensible person and turn them into a monster? What drives a person to weaponize one’s car to unleash all background frustrations onto a complete stranger? What are those background frustrations? BEEF looks into…

Climate Change

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The Hidden Climate Story in Lee Sung Jin’s “BEEF”
The Hidden Climate Story in Lee Sung Jin’s “BEEF”
Climate Change

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Jan 17

The hidden climate story in James Corden’s Mammals

I originally typed this in imdb reviews but it was declined, (apparently “that ending though…” is more acceptable per imdb standards) so here we go: ✋ Spoiler Alert The show on the surface is about man and woman, love and lust, and perhaps attempting the tough case for polyamory. …

Climate Change

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The hidden climate story in James Corden’s Mammals
The hidden climate story in James Corden’s Mammals
Climate Change

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Dec 19, 2022

Los Angeles — İstanbul

Los Angeles — İstanbul Sabah oğlum babasının yaptığı yumurtalı ekmeği cottage cheese’in içinde dolaştırdı dolaştırdı. Üç kelimeyle anlattı. “Gemi, dalga, sular.” Ben de dedim evet oğlum köpük onlar, yelkenlin dalgalara…

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May 25, 2022

Do more nothing

(Note to self) — Excuse me while I indulge in my “JOMO” (Joy of Missing Out). I’m dropping in on meta for a quick second to recommend a book📕 that is aligned with so much I’ve been thinking, saying, practicing lately. 👶🏻👶🏻 Life with 2 babies under the age of 2 — not my…

Book Review

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Do more nothing
Do more nothing
Book Review

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Apr 26, 2022

At the pediatrician’s office, I had to tell them not to give my son a toy after getting vaccinated.

A couple of times they did that. Before I could stop it. Right after he gets the shot, when he starts whining a little bit, they just popped this surprise egg car toy thing before I could stop it. And of course, it distracts him and he stops crying but…

Parenting

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At the pediatrician’s office, I had to tell them not to give my son a toy after getting vaccinated.
At the pediatrician’s office, I had to tell them not to give my son a toy after getting vaccinated.
Parenting

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ASLI SONCELEY

ASLI SONCELEY

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Founder. Mother. Immigrant. Artist. Strategist. Focused on Climate Psychology.

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