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Mary Annaïse Heglar

Mary Annaïse Heglar

Where I’m Writing Now

Haven’t updated my Medium page in a while, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been quiet!

3 min readJun 30, 2020

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Where I’m Writing Now

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Mary Annaïse Heglar

Home is Always Worth It

The first time I met what I have come to not-so-affectionately know as a “doomer dude” was in 2007. I was volunteering with a New York…

5 min readSep 12, 2019

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Climate Change Isn’t Racist — People Are

We cannot assess the damage without looking at the impact on people of color

5 min readAug 13, 2019

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Climate Change Isn’t Racist — People Are

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But the Greatest of These is Love

To face climate change, hope won’t be enough. Fear won’t be enough. And neither will anger. What we really need is love. Hear me out.

5 min readJul 17, 2019

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But the Greatest of These is Love

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Climate Change Isn’t the First Existential Threat

People of color know about building movements, about courage, about survival

5 min readFeb 18, 2019

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Blood at the Root: Black Americans, Southern Soil, and Shared Trauma

Black bodies and the Southern earth simultaneously became unfeeling objects from which one could extract endlessly, and mercilessly.

3 min readDec 20, 2018

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Blood at the Root: Black Americans, Southern Soil, and Shared Trauma

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Feel Something, Learn Something, Do Something: A Care Package for Climate Grief

About two weeks ago, I wrote about my personal journey through climate grief and mourning. The response to that piece, including its…

4 min readOct 23, 2018

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When Climate Change Broke My Heart and Forced Me to Grow Up

This week, the world-revered International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a damning report — more like a prognosis — on our…

5 min readOct 10, 2018

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The Mouth of a Shark

A baby ripped from her mother’s breast. A desperate father resorting to suicide after being separated from his son. A 20-year-old college…

3 min readJun 25, 2018

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The Mouth of a Shark

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How Does It Feel? The Failure of Language in the Age of Climate Change

We don’t know how to talk about climate change.

2 min readMar 6, 2018

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How Does It Feel? The Failure of Language in the Age of Climate Change

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Mary Annaïse Heglar

Mary Annaïse Heglar

Climate justice writer. Co-creator and co-host of the Hot Take podcast and newsletter. Southern girl and NYC woman. James Baldwin is my personal hero.

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