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Climate Anxiety: What we need to talk about when we talk about climate change
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PresentationPublication Date
2020-03-28Keywords
graphic medicinecomics
cartoons
climate change
climate crisis
climate anxiety
Medical Humanities
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This presentation discusses the emotional toll of climate change: climate anxiety. To view a recording of this presentation and the panel discussion, see Panel B: Minding Graphic Medicine’s Rise.DOI
10.13028/1kts-8p65Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/37407Notes
Maria Photinakis is a illustrator and comic book artist exploring science fiction and autobiographical narratives around alienation, self-discovery, and the diaspora experience. She is originally from and still currently based in the greater Boston area, and works out of her home studio in Waltham. She enjoys traveling with her husband and daughter around the world and sketching their adventures.Rights
Copyright © 2020 Photinakis. This is an open access document distributed under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Distribution License
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