'The fundamental act of all colonial extraction [is] to maraud through the intricate and knotted bonds that hold people and place together, the bonds of an ecosystem and of a society, and render them down to a single element: gold, zinc, beaver'
granta.com/where-the-lang… Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social

IMPORTANT FRONT YARD UPDATE: the first hummingbird moths are here

I love writing. When I'm feeling low on mojo it's usually cause i need to fire up the .docx and bang out these bon mots & articulate these epiphanies. It cheers me up to tuck a beautiful clause between two emdashes. People who complain about how writing sucks...step your game up!

Being an editor means I get to learn about so many fascinating places, people, and species. I loved working with Monica Evans on this story about an extremely rare bat species and the people who safeguard it:
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Calling all freelancers: Pitch Hakai Magazine and editors judeisabella and Krista Langlois. They are smart, thoughtful, interested in storytelling — and they care DEEPLY about how they treat their writers.

Trust me. It's a special place. hakaimagazine.com

Every spring my body is shocked to recall that spending hours outside in sunshine each day feels really freaking good

In a massive #landback win, the Haida Nation gets 10,000 square kilometers of their unceded homelands from British Columbia.

Hakai Magazine and Serena Renner have the best coverage, with vital context to understand this history-in-the-making: hakaimagazine.com/news/in-coasta…

As a former (mediocre) whitewater kayaker, I related a lot with this Maggie Slepian (she/her) essay, about not just what happens after a close call but about the way that risk-taking becomes social capital in many mountain towns longreads.com/2024/04/02/i-n…

Thanks to Reasons to be Cheerful & Becca Worby for picking up my Hakai Magazine story on culvert replacement. As Krista Langlois pointed out, this means that David Byrne now knows all about culverts. 🤯

*you may tell yourself / this is not a beautiful pipe*

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We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER.

Fact checking for my forthcoming Hakai Magazine story on real estate speculation, mega-resorts, and unplanned, poorly planned and possibly illegal development on a storied Mexican coastline

🚨 Big news from the orca world, reported by the inimitable Craig Welch 🚨

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SCOOP: the Māori King and other Indigenous leaders will gather tomorrow to sign a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.

the movement is rooted in the Māori worldview, which sees whales as ancestors, one Māori conservationist writes for Atmos: atmos.earth/a-descendants-…

It's a tough time for journalism. But while other outlets buckle, Hakai Magazine continues to publish well researched, carefully crafted, and fact-checked stories with no paywall. Now, to ensure we can continue that work, we're asking for your support: hakaimagazine.com/support?utm_so…

Unglamorous, often ignored, and deadly for fish populations, killer culverts lurk beneath roads and railways worldwide. I had the pleasure of editing this Ben Goldfarb story for Hakai Magazine about what the US is doing so solve its culvert crisis: hakaimagazine.com/features/light…

Hey friends. Lest you think I quit this place because of [gestures vaguely], I did not! I was blocked from my account for a couple months, but I'm glad to be here again to share my favorite writing and thoughts about writing <3