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Hot & Bothered

Hot & Bothered
Photograph by Greta Žukauskaitė / Instagram

LISTENING: to the birds chirp
FEELING: hot!
SEEING: people walk by outside

It's Juneteenth today, and I'm seated on my balcony. It's too hot to be out here. I should go inside, but my heart feels broken. I'm hoping the birds and the trees can help put it back together. It's been a shitty week, so let's get into it.

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Welcome to Possibilities, a creative climate newsletter on the possibilities that lie where crisis meets community. I’m Yessenia Funes, and I believe housing should be a human right.

I know this is one of my soapboxes — I feel like I write about this a lot, and I'm sorry if it feels repetitive. But this is freshly on my mind after some personal turmoil.

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Yessenia Funes

Yessenia Funes is an environmental journalist telling stories of society's most oppressed. She's been published in The Guardian, Yale Climate Connections, The Verge, Vox, and more. Think of this newsletter as a digital postcard from a friend.
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