Reframing Rage with Kathryn Mockler

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On this episode of Reframeables, we are reframing rage with author Kathryn Mockler. She spoke with us about the despair of writing and editing climate justice work, and how she’s moved forward from rage and exchanged hurt for the earth for human connection. She calls it ‘post-hope,’ though instead of ‘hope,’ her preferred word is ‘possibility’ — a possibility for shared concerns in community, be it in her writing or in her teaching.
Kathryn Mockler is a writer, screenwriter, experimental filmmaker, editor, and publisher and the author of the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023). She co-edited the print anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020) and is the publisher of the Watch Your Head website. Her films have screened at TIFF, EMFA, the Palm Springs Film Festival and most recently at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and REELPoetry/HoustonTX. She runs the literary newsletter Send My Love to Anyone.
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Anecdotes
For more from Kathryn, check out her website

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Chapters

1. This week's episode (00:00:00)

2. Feeling and writing shame (00:01:17)

3. Starting to have more feelings (00:07:00)

4. Unlikeable female protagonists (00:14:48)

5. Things in writing you're not supposed to do (00:20:27)

6. Small stories and The Human Microphone (00:24:02)

7. Can storytelling be activism? (00:29:44)

8. All that's left when nothing's left (00:32:14)

9. Past and Future (00:34:35)

10. Speed round (00:42:33)