The Nerves and Their Endings Quotes

“For those who haven’t yet experienced climate collapse in our own bodies, a history not yet written into us, the feeling it arrives in the shape of shadows, an atmospheric wrongness, and harrowing predictions; these are stories that change our own. The moment we begin to truly engage with climate science, our narratives of self and future are whirled out of orbit.”
― Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, The Nerves and Their Endings

“In the expansive nervous system of this word, white supremacy, patriarchy, and extractivism are faulty codes, the misfiring signals which diconnect me from what is, in fact, happening to me; they construct peripheries and thereby make ancient pain seem brand-new.”
― Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, The Nerves and Their Endings

“Climate collapse has been a racist issue for at least five hundred years. Colonialism made it so.”
― Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, The Nerves and Their Endings