This week’s minisode is a little more leisurely than last time, as I think my way through empathy fatigue aka burnout in the face of crisis, and whether hopepunk is a possible way through feelings of numbness and overwhelm. And to accompany this slightly longer episode, here are some unusually concise links!

• Anne Helen Petersen’s “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation”
• Alyssa Hull’s “Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse”
• Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
• Some more context/background on hopepunk
• Sara Ahmed’s Willful Subjects
• Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism
• The Sandy & Nora podcast!
• The online Queer Zine Archive
• Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

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Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.