Speculative Interspecies Autoethnography: Speaking-with the Future

By Professor Karen Malone Introduction Ursula Le Guin writes "It's up to authors to spark the imagination of their readers and to help them envision alternatives to how we live." She reminds us our writing is both warning and promise and it is never innocent.  When we write, we have a responsibility to envision possibilities, …

Validating children’s feelings of loss when the planet they love and care for is dying

Author: Professor Karen Malone, Snapshot of Presentations given at the University of OsloMET and University of Gothenberg (May 2023), University of Oulu and University of Helsinki (October 2023). We need to look after our planet or otherwise, otherwise it will die. Like koalas, animals, us. Us we will die. Animals will die. Everyone will die. …