Acknowledgements

Resilience will never be sustainable infrastructure.

We acknowledge that our history continues on stolen land.

Before we begin our own storytelling and anchoring Rooting Storms project, we must not only acknowledge the Chitimatcha and Choctaw land that these stories largely occur upon but recognize the ways in which our own journeys have existed within systems that have brutally harmed indigenous people as well as the land.

Please support local native-owned orgs/businesses: Maypop, Tasso Time.

Our Stories continue to be Our Power. We honor and hold space for our storytellers and culture bearers with deep love for the diaspora. We honor our Ancestors and the Ancestors we are becoming with our stories–may the heal us as the advocate for our communities.

On Climate Trauma

We define Climate Trauma as Dr. Zhiwa Woodbury does in Climate Trauma: Toward a New Taxonomy of Trauma. “Climate Trauma provides the missing narrative explaining our dissociated unresponsiveness to the climate crisis, and suggests an alternative approach to effecting the kind of fundamental societal change needed to remedy our collective dissociation.”

In the context of Rooting Storms, storytelling is not only data but our medicine and tools of alchemizing grief and advocating for change. In these stories we are also naming Climate Trauma as an intersection of traumas Asian American Pacific Islanders face.