Welcome to Agam the Climate Podcast, a literary show about climate, crisis, and consciousness. Listen to our conversations with award-winning writers and artists on how we can reimagine climate change and actionable hope for kinder futures.
This podcast is part of the Agam Agenda, a platform for creative, trans-disciplinary collaboration across networks of writers, artists, scientists, youth, and campaigners.
A moon child, a motorbike racer, and South African feminist writer and scholar, Malebo Sephodi is an award-winning writer. Malebo’s debut non-fiction book, Miss Behave (published by BlackBird Books, 2017), won her the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author (2018). Her interdisciplinary work focuses on human development policy, gender, and information communications technology for development. She is also a contributor to The Agam Agenda’s anthology Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis.
Listen to our conversation as Malebo speaks about writing, activism, feminism, and nurturing a relationship with nature. She also tells us how her interdisciplinary work within and beyond academe is something she learned from her ancestors, most specifically, her grandmother.
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Agam the Climate Podcast is part of the Agam Agenda: reimagining and widening storytelling circles on climate change.
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Pre-order our latest anthology, Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis, via http://agamgenda.com/harvest-moon (http://agamgenda.com/harvest-moon)
Join the global poetry rebellion at http://whenisnow.org (http://whenisnow.org/)
Produced by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities and Ground Bravo Studios
18 Nov 2021
Natasha Vizcarra
How does science writer and journalist Natasha Vizcarra handle data and jargon when writing for a popular audience? How do we meaningfully communicate the science behind climate change towards action? Plus, how is science writing comparable to fiction or even poetry?
In this episode, we speak with Natasha Vizcarra, a science writer based in Colorado. Her work is published in several journals and magazines, including Forests News, Landscape News, and Science Findings. She was a writer and editor for Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features. She is also an award-winning children’s book author and has published several picture books. Her latest children’s book is SPIKEYS, PRICKLES & PRONGIES: A Coronavirus Discovery Story, out now in the Philippines, published by Tahanan Books for Young Readers.
Listen to our conversation with Natasha on science writing and more.
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Agam the Climate Podcast is part of the Agam Agenda: reimagining and widening the climate conversation through stories and art.
Follow us on Instagram (http://instagram.com/agamagenda), Twitter (http://twitter.com/agamagenda), and Facebook (http://facebook.com/TheAgamAgenda).
Visit our website at https://agamgenda.com (https://agamgenda.com/)
Join the global poetry rebellion at http://whenisnow.org (http://whenisnow.org/)
Produced by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities and Ground Bravo Studios.
8 Jul 2021
Sigrid Gayangos
We speak with Sigrid Gayangos, a writer born and raised in Zamboanga. In 2020, Sigrid’s short story, “Galansiyang”, was one of 10 finalists in the Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, which received a total of 580 submissions from 77 countries. The story, whose title is a local name for the Asian glossy starling, is published and can be read in Everything Change Volume III (https://csi.asu.edu/books/everything-change-vol-3/) (published by Arizona State University).
She is one of the editors of Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South (https://katitikan.com), an open-access literary journal for writing and ideas in, through, and of the Southern Philippines. Sigrid’s works have been anthologized in Mindanao Odysseys: A Collection of Travel Essays, Fantasy: Fiction for Young Adults, Maximum Volume: Best New Philippine Fiction 3, Philippine Speculative Fiction 12, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and Best Small Fictions 2019, among others. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories.
Listen to this conversation with Sigrid about writing intersectionality and climate into fiction. When not busy with her writing, she divides her time between training mathletes and making friends with curious sea critters.
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Agam the Climate Podcast is part of the Agam Agenda: reimagining the climate conversation through stories and art. Follow us on Instagram (http://instagram.com/agamagenda), Twitter (http://twitter.com/agamagenda), and Facebook (http://facebook.com/TheAgamAgenda). Visit our website at agam.ph (http://agam.ph/)
Produced by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities and Ground Bravo Studios.
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