Diana’s Substack
Working class environmental and social justice activist with all the associated sociological weirdness. I will use every non-violent tool in the toolbox to get to a future where all can thrive. And I have lots of big ideas I like to share.
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The Other Side of Love is Outrage (opens the original)
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When everything we love is under threat, what do we feel? And what do we do with those feelings?I think first we allow ourselves to feel those feelings, we breathe through them, and we strategize.Diana’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primary" type=
Externalities (opens the original)
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The other night, the term ‘externality’ came to me as the next thing I wanted to write about. I can think of so many externalities, and their consequences, right now. Everything from wars, to AI data centres, to the way we treat each other. Here is the Britannica Money definition of Externality:Diana’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, cons
Working Class Racism? (opens the original)
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As a working class person, I grew up believing that my country, Canada, was non-racist. I would befriend anyone who I could connect with regardless of their race, religion or identity. I still do. That is my normal.My world was rocked when I started working for government, and actually met people who were racist. To my surprise, they were middle class. Since then, I’ve had people from middle class backgrounds tell me about the racism they grew up with in their families, or how they’d go out with
Learning From the Global Resistance (opens the original)
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Ever since Israel began its most aggressive genocide almost three years ago I’ve been obsessed with geopolitical issues. What I couldn’t wrap my head around was western support for Israel, even as we saw the gruesome details of its genocide of Gaza on our screens. Being labelled as antisemitic when we objected to it did not compute, and it’s bewildering that this narrative was being pushed so aggressively. Diana’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive
The Future We Desire (opens the original)
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With the global situation being tumultuous in so many ways — geopolitically, environmentally, societally — it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, depressed and despondent. But something that will help us to reach a better emotional state, and a better world, is a vision of the kind of world we want.In many ways, as things continue to unravel, we have opportunities to create the future. Diana’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work,
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