Mx.D.P

I am writing this on my new iPad with a keyboard. I don’t like buying new tech; it’s not good for the planet, but it seems it is good for me. When my heart stalls, my touch screen doesn’t work… it thinks I am dead.

Managing my enviroment is a day to day struggle. This week I started the series of workshops for the the Welsh Assembly Climate Conversations.

My first workshop was at Coleg Ceredigion with a group of young neuro diverse adults with additional learning needs and including Autism, Downs Syndrome and global development delay.

They were absolutly wonderful and a joy to be with extremly enthusiastic about the project.

We are going to build a collage instillation for Gŵyl Cariad to talk about a journey from the Transgender South Pole of Alfie the Agender Penguin; to meet up with Non-binary Neville, the Polar Bear at the Queer North Pole.

This is to tell the tale of the impending mass migration of the MAPA (Most Affected People and Areas. A term that refers to groups and territories that are disproportionately affected by climate change. These groups include women, Indigenous communities, racial minorities, LGBTQIA+ people, young, older, and poorer people, Crip folks and those with additional needs and the Global South)

Alfie has a tricky journey to meet up with his pal Neville. There are food shortages, and the fish are oil-covered or neon rocket fish full of microplastic pigment particles from folks washing their paint brushes and the waste going out to sea. There are oil spills, new super oil and gas drilling platforms called Spar Platforms that can drill deeper than ever before, lots of plastic pollution, and even a full bottle of Mateus Rosé that has been wastefully tossed in the sea. A nasty pack of oil-covered Orcas to nom Alfie. There is even the broken anchor from a ‘science’ cruise ship that has greenwashed its way into the protective Antarctic area!

Alfie is having a hard time, and so am I. I forgot I was crip and wandered around the workshop, standing, bending, doing all the stuff I couldn’t do! The Art Maths came in and now I am ‘cripped’ good and proper… crying amounts of pain from my knees, back and I can’t poo again…. arrrghhh when will I learn…

To which end, I am about to set up a little mini Vlog studio; that will be another post, no doubt!

The collage is not finished, and the group is still working on some aspects of the vertical components, so I will have to look at sightings for this. Also, one of the group loves to draw cartoon characters, so I can see animation in all of this… well, of course I can!

The staff filled out the climate survey; they were shocked at its content. Climate chaos is scary stuff!