This is a conversation with Andrew, the Solarpunk Anarchist from Trinidad and Tobago behind the YouTube channel 'Saint Andrewism.'

Topics DiscussedWhat is Solarpunk? Solarpunk Anarchism?The problem with GreenwashingHow to talk about the climate & problems with the climate movementGenerational shifts in the climate movementThe importance of intersectionalitySwitzerland's voting patterns and the reaction to Covid-19 (tangent on my part)Why the revolution needs therapy (Reading Ashanti Alston & bell hooks, community care and solidarity, dealing with emotional baggage in revolutionary settings)Everyone needs feminism, including menThe risks of psychologizing patriarchal oppression (brought up episode 27)Mutual AidEmotional Anarchism (brought up episodes 59/60)On social media and their limitationsGrowing up in Trinidad + some chat about that specific context (legacies of colonialism, colorism, patriarchy, class divides, government corruption, education system, black capitalism, crime)Some interesting Trinidad and Lebanon intersections/differencesAddressing Gen-Zers as a Gen-ZerLearning from past movements' mistakes and successesThe past being taboo in LebanonIntersections between Solar Punk and Afro-FuturismThe radical roots of carnival (Trinidad, Notting Hill)Discussions within anarchism

Recommended BooksAnarchy by Errico MalatestaThe Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooksThe Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin

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