Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Simmone Ahiaku and tells A reality of love, loss and gentrification in Brixton.

Simmone is a climate justice campaigner, writer and educator who has contributed to environmental, social and cultural work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and direct action campaigns. She currently uses facilitated workshops to explore climate colonialism and examples of climate resistance and movements from the past and present day. Simmone is an astrology enthusiast - she's an aries sun, moon and Scorpio rising. Simmone loves music, hates capitalism and likes looking at the bright side of things!

What can you do?

Simmone has curated an amazing list of resources here so please head over to the online article, and scroll down to the What can you do? section to check that out. It includes articles, films, documentaries, places to visit, songs to listen to, and even her most recommended restaurants in Brixton, for you to save to your maps and take your friends or loved ones to.

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Inclusive sex ed empowers our communities, and keeps people safe

Tara Michaela is a Black, queer sex educator based in Philadelphia and New York. She is the founder of The Youth Sexpert Program, a non-profit training program that aims to provide comprehensive sex education for high school aged youth, so they can become their community's sex expert. Her work focuses primarily on how injustice manifests in sexual interactions. She uses her social media platforms and written pieces to connect with her community on these issues.

What can you do?

Stay up to date with YSP:

• The YSP 💛 (@theyouths3xpertprogram) • Instagram photos and videos
• The Youth Sexpert Program (@theyouths3xpertprogram) | TikTok
• The Youth Sexpert Program

Sex Ed x Abolition Readings:

• The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan
• Pleasure Activism, adrienne maree brown
• Good Sex Illustrated, Tony Duvert
• The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
• We Do This Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba
• You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now? | by Luke Malone

Related orgs:

• Restorative Justice Coalition Request a Healing Circle
• Zepp Wellness

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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Andrew Sage and is an introduction to Solarpunk: Everything you need to know about Solarpunk, how it connects to climate justice and how to get involved with the movement.

Andrew is a writer, artist, organiser, and YouTuber born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago. As an ardent anarchist and firm believer in power to the people, Andrew aims to invigorate imaginations and encourage people to create a better world in the shell of the old.

What can you do?

• Andrewism is a YouTube channel that focuses on the intersections between anarchism, anthropology, history, ecology, economy, Blackness, and more, with a particular emphasis on real world solutions and the practical potential of solarpunk.
• Our Changing Climate is a YouTube channel that investigates humanity’s relationship to the natural world and all that entails.
• Think That Through is a YouTube channel that explores various aspects of climate change, the capitalocene, greenwashing, and more.
• Andrew Millison is a YouTube channel that provides excellent resources on ecosystem restoration, permaculture, and ongoing projects in the field.
• Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach is an excellent utopia novel written in 1975 that explores one potential, though flawed, manifestation of solarpunk principles in an alternative Cascadia. The author has noted that, “It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go.”

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