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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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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.

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Visit our website at https://agamgenda.com

Join the global poetry rebellion at http://whenisnow.org

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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 (published by Arizona State University).

She is one of the editors of Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, 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, Twitter, and Facebook. Visit our website at agam.ph 

Produced by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities and Ground Bravo Studios.

Letters from Nature began with us wondering: What would happen if we thought, felt, and wrote from the perspective of nature, or the more-than-human? What would nature have to say to humans? What would we have to say to each other?

Listen to the readings of three special #LettersFromNature: a campaign to reconnect with the more-than-human, in collaboration with MUNI and Habilin.

In this episode, you’ll hear from the perspectives of the Philippine hornbill (written by Alex Paredes), soil (written by Althea Serad), and all of nature (written by Maye Padilla). Stay tuned till the end for a spoken word rendition of “We Have Met” by Padmapani Perez, a piece from the perspective of seeds, and published in the book Makisawsaw: Recipes X Ideas (Gantala Press, 2019), edited by Mabi David and Karla Rey.

For more about Letters from Nature, tune in to the MUNI on This podcast on Spotify and wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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Agam the Climate Podcast is produced under the Agam Agenda: reimagining the climate conversation through stories and art. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Visit our website at agam.ph

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As Earth Month draws to a close, listen to this special episode with Padma Perez, in conversation with Jen Horn, host of the podcast MUNI on This and one of our co-conspirators.

In our previous episodes, we asked our guests to answer the question: “What more-than-human species has a presence in your life?” Listen as Padma and Jen unpack some of the responses we’ve heard—from songbirds to algae—and share their thoughts on the importance of nature, reconnection, and more-than-human presence.

This episode features segments from our conversations with Agam contributors, María Faciolince, Swetha Ram, Luisa Igloria, Yuvan Aves, and Joti Tabula.

Take part in our #LettersFromNature initiative: http://bit.ly/LettersFromNature

You can also check out the MUNI on This podcast on Spotify and wherever you listen.

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Agam the Climate Podcast is under the Agam Agenda: reimagining the climate conversation through stories and art. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Visit our website at agam.ph

Produced by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities and Ground Bravo Studios.

In this episode, we speak with writer, naturalist, educator, and activist Yuvan Aves, based in Chennai, India. After moving out of conventional schooling at the age of 16, Yuvan pursued his self-education and cultivated a deep relationship with nature throughout life.

We have a rich conversation with Yuvan on what it means to be a naturalist, his vast experiences and learnings in environmental activism, and how stories and art help to sow kinder futures for the planet. We also talk about the campaign to save Pulicat Lake, a sanctuary for biodiversity and the second largest brackish water ecosystem in India.

Yuvan is the author of A Naturalist’s Journal (Notion Press, 2017), a collection of essays. He is the recipient of the M.Krishnan Nature Writing Award, conferred by the Madras Naturalists’ Society. He also teaches at an alternative education space for children in Chennai, as he continues to reimagine an Earth-centric and child-centric education in schools. He is currently travelling and documenting stories along the Indian coastline.

He is a contributor to the forthcoming Agam anthology, Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis (out later in 2021).

Follow Yuvan on Instagram (@a_naturalists_column) and Twitter (@Yuvan_aves).

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Agam the Climate Podcast is under the Agam Agenda: reimagining the climate conversation through stories and art. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Visit our website at agam.ph

Produced by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities and Ground Bravo Studios.