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Things are bad (not a video essay)
elliot sang again

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edited by Danae O.

exec. prod. @earthtonellie

Links/further reading:

That new rarebeauty ad https://www.instagram.com/p/DfCz9BNCOnj/

karankawakayda on hope https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddb67_DhnjB/

say_qis solo travel as a disabled woman https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeflEjQS8XD/

Chaudhary, Ajay Singh (2024). Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. Repeater.

Halberstam, Jack (2011). The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erkzpHh2TzE

Chapters

00:00 must we uplift?

07:22 letting white people go

25:03 the nostalgia problem

28:25 is hope necessary?

34:12 climate hope?

37:50 disability and inescapability

44:11 queerness and failure