Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
@sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social
professor, chair, author, speaker
climate justice, environment, emotions, + activism
climate justice, environment, emotions, + activism
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Big thanks to @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social for this thoughtful interview about some of my ongoing scholarship on masculinity, climate change, and education. Check it out: www.khsu.org/show/climate...
Is it 'unmanly' to care about climate change?
What’s pulling so many men away from climate action?
www.khsu.org
April 11, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Big thanks to @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social for this thoughtful interview about some of my ongoing scholarship on masculinity, climate change, and education. Check it out: www.khsu.org/show/climate...
I want to uplift an amazing offering: a 7-week online learning journey about how to respond to the polycrisis with mindful & compassionate action, based on the fab book Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet. Next cohort starts March 1: plumvillage.org/courses/zen-...
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet | Plum Village
Welcome to a 7-week in-depth online learning journey to nurture insight, compassion, community, and mindful action in service of the Earth.
plumvillage.org
January 30, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I want to uplift an amazing offering: a 7-week online learning journey about how to respond to the polycrisis with mindful & compassionate action, based on the fab book Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet. Next cohort starts March 1: plumvillage.org/courses/zen-...
“We’re drinking from this firehose of grief and fear and overwhelm. The alarm bells are going off everywhere—and instead of moving in response, they become a chronic part of our nervous system.”
On Climate Magic with Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner
www.khsu.org/show/climate...
On Climate Magic with Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner
www.khsu.org/show/climate...
Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner on “The Firehose of Alarms”
"Paying attention to existence is important when we’re living in a time of climate change because it helps the present moment to not be stolen away from us," says Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner.
www.khsu.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 AM
“We’re drinking from this firehose of grief and fear and overwhelm. The alarm bells are going off everywhere—and instead of moving in response, they become a chronic part of our nervous system.”
On Climate Magic with Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner
www.khsu.org/show/climate...
On Climate Magic with Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner
www.khsu.org/show/climate...
What happens when your brain meets climate change? Enjoy this interview with “Your Brain on Climate” host Dave Powell on Climate Magic!
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Dave Powell: “This is Your Brain on Climate”
Podcast Episode · Climate Magic · 01/05/2026 · 59m
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January 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
What happens when your brain meets climate change? Enjoy this interview with “Your Brain on Climate” host Dave Powell on Climate Magic!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
How can listening better solve the polycrisis? How do we work together with/as messy humans for the sake of the earth? Listen to this week's episode of Climate Magic with @fkearns.bsky.social author of Getting to the Heart of Science Communication
open.spotify.com/episode/3ZFs...
open.spotify.com/episode/3ZFs...
Faith Kearns believes that better communication can save the world
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
How can listening better solve the polycrisis? How do we work together with/as messy humans for the sake of the earth? Listen to this week's episode of Climate Magic with @fkearns.bsky.social author of Getting to the Heart of Science Communication
open.spotify.com/episode/3ZFs...
open.spotify.com/episode/3ZFs...
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Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Alexander Menrisky speaks with @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social about his recent book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. They discuss how consumption is tied to national identity and how ecofascism lurks in the everyday. 🇺🇸 🌳
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky - Edge Effects
Alexander Menrisky speaks about his new book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature.
edgeeffects.net
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Alexander Menrisky speaks with @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social about his recent book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. They discuss how consumption is tied to national identity and how ecofascism lurks in the everyday. 🇺🇸 🌳
Loved sitting with Katharine Wilkinson to talk about heart-centered climate work in this week’s episode of Climate Magic. And she’s got a new book coming out!
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“Thinking Like an Oak Tree” with Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
Podcast Episode · Climate Magic · 11/20/2025 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Loved sitting with Katharine Wilkinson to talk about heart-centered climate work in this week’s episode of Climate Magic. And she’s got a new book coming out!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Review for Climate Magic w/ @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social:
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
Climate Magic: podcast review
www.parentsforclimate.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Review for Climate Magic w/ @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social:
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
"For anyone curious about how emotion and action intertwine in the climate movement, this podcast is both grounding and illuminating."
www.parentsforclimate.org/climate_magi...
"I can choose to see my students' annoying behavior as rooted in alienation, dissociation, moral injury, fear of their futures.. Of course they would rather scroll their lives away on Tiktok. Wouldn’t you, given the world we’re handing over to them?" - open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
How the Dharma Taught Me How to Teach
What would happen if our teachers were motivated less by ego and individualism, and more by compassion and creating community?
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"I can choose to see my students' annoying behavior as rooted in alienation, dissociation, moral injury, fear of their futures.. Of course they would rather scroll their lives away on Tiktok. Wouldn’t you, given the world we’re handing over to them?" - open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
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Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all.
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Maps #Chicago #Toxic #Health #Lead #Pipes #Policy #Politics #Illinois
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Maps #Chicago #Toxic #Health #Lead #Pipes #Policy #Politics #Illinois
Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mapped
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
grist.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Why Climate Magic? "We are the magicians,"- Krista Franklin
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Why Climate Magic?
A new podcast on the emotional life of climate politics to support the climate-weary and leverage our hearts and minds in service of the planet.
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Why Climate Magic? "We are the magicians,"- Krista Franklin
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
How can we leverage our hearts and minds for better climate action and collective healing? This is the topic of my new podcast, Climate Magic, now available on Spotify and Apple.
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
podcasts.apple.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
How can we leverage our hearts and minds for better climate action and collective healing? This is the topic of my new podcast, Climate Magic, now available on Spotify and Apple.
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
Please share and follow!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1....
"Should we be alarmed, not just by the material effects that will come from defunding climate research, but by the seemingly innocent dropping of the mere word 'climate change' from public discourse? And what are the benefits of unnaming climate?”
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open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Unnaming Climate
Aside from the material attacks on climate science and life on this planet, a more subtle discursive erasure is also afoot. What's lost--and gained--in unnaming climate?
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"Should we be alarmed, not just by the material effects that will come from defunding climate research, but by the seemingly innocent dropping of the mere word 'climate change' from public discourse? And what are the benefits of unnaming climate?”
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Has the word "climate change" lost its utility? Do we need to to speak of "climate change" to work for climate justice? Short answer: Yes, and no! Think this through with me- open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Unnaming Climate
Aside from the material attacks on climate science and life on this planet, a more subtle discursive erasure is also afoot. What's lost--and gained--in unnaming climate?
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Has the word "climate change" lost its utility? Do we need to to speak of "climate change" to work for climate justice? Short answer: Yes, and no! Think this through with me- open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Hurt People Hurt the Planet: "The punisher, misogynist, anthropocentrist, abuser, and hater are all taking up residence in me. They’re not just “out there” ... I can confront those forces right here, right now, at the frontlines of my own nervous system." open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Hurt People Hurt the Planet
Healing isn't just for yourself. It's a theory of change, and we need it more than ever as institutions fail us.
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hurt People Hurt the Planet: "The punisher, misogynist, anthropocentrist, abuser, and hater are all taking up residence in me. They’re not just “out there” ... I can confront those forces right here, right now, at the frontlines of my own nervous system." open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
Can we make giving a shit about others cool again? open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
The Solution to All the Problems
Can we make giving a shit about others cool again?
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Can we make giving a shit about others cool again? open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
I got my hackles up with that Princeton letter from Dept. of Commerce, citing "climate anxiety" as a reason to cut climate research. sarahjaquetteray.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
The Weaponization of Youth Climate Anxiety
How the right is using young people's worries about their future to destroy the planet
sarahjaquetteray.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I got my hackles up with that Princeton letter from Dept. of Commerce, citing "climate anxiety" as a reason to cut climate research. sarahjaquetteray.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
From "Ok, boomer" to the Third Act, it's good to see this shift in the role of boomers in activism. Let's keep moving toward intergenerational coalition-building! Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social and @akayawind.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare
If you're over 60, you viscerally get the need for, say, the Clean Air Act, functioning Social Security and affordable dolls at Christmas.
www.latimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
From "Ok, boomer" to the Third Act, it's good to see this shift in the role of boomers in activism. Let's keep moving toward intergenerational coalition-building! Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social and @akayawind.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Let's get money out of politics so we can get people in office who represent the people. Latest news on climate politics of Americans, plus how many Americans disapprove of current immigration and economy policies, suggests we aren't voting in alignment with our politics.
NEW REPORT: Our latest Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy report is out today. Most registered voters oppose eliminating government programs on global warming like FEMA - explore the findings here:
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2025
Americans continue to support action to fight climate change
climatecommunication.yale.edu
June 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Let's get money out of politics so we can get people in office who represent the people. Latest news on climate politics of Americans, plus how many Americans disapprove of current immigration and economy policies, suggests we aren't voting in alignment with our politics.
What's in a name? "‘Climate change’ sounds like a phrase that a government agency might employ to justify new fishing regulations or a phenomenon a scholar from outside the community might study... too political, too cold, too loaded to map onto everyday life.” www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
In N.C., Climate Change Is Happening—Just Don't Call It That
Rising seas and stronger storms are reshaping coastal North Carolina, but many avoid terms like climate change even as they live its effects.
www.theassemblync.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What's in a name? "‘Climate change’ sounds like a phrase that a government agency might employ to justify new fishing regulations or a phenomenon a scholar from outside the community might study... too political, too cold, too loaded to map onto everyday life.” www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
Dana Fisher's survey results from NoKings events Saturday. "Consistent with the Resistance to the Trump Administration during its first term, the majority of hosts and participants were female, predominantly white, and highly educated". danarfisher.com/2025/06/15/t...
The Resistance Rises to Declare #NoKings
On June 14th, while Donald Trump held a military parade in our nation’s Capitol, millions of people across the US mobilized to protest the actions of the Trump Administration and its policies…
danarfisher.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dana Fisher's survey results from NoKings events Saturday. "Consistent with the Resistance to the Trump Administration during its first term, the majority of hosts and participants were female, predominantly white, and highly educated". danarfisher.com/2025/06/15/t...
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Bsky doesn't have enough users to change discourse by itself. But clean UI/lack of algos probably makes it underrated as an organizing tool for highly engaged Ds & lefties. Protests happen, TikTok/Insta then extend reach to normies. Minimized coverage because of media cuts/billionaire throttling.
"Our ongoing research on protests in the US reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017."
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
wagingnonviolence.org
June 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Bsky doesn't have enough users to change discourse by itself. But clean UI/lack of algos probably makes it underrated as an organizing tool for highly engaged Ds & lefties. Protests happen, TikTok/Insta then extend reach to normies. Minimized coverage because of media cuts/billionaire throttling.
Burnout and fatalism are everywhere, and it feels good to be in community with people in the nonprofit/philanthropy world. Thanks to @jimrendon.bsky.social for being such a great interviewer and writer for this piece! www.philanthropy.com/article/feel...
Feeling Burned Out, Overwhelmed, and Outmatched? This Professor Has Some Advice
Finding community is the “holy grail” to keep going when you’re trying to solve social problems against what seem like impossible odds. Joy is important, too.
www.philanthropy.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Burnout and fatalism are everywhere, and it feels good to be in community with people in the nonprofit/philanthropy world. Thanks to @jimrendon.bsky.social for being such a great interviewer and writer for this piece! www.philanthropy.com/article/feel...
