{"id":1192,"date":"2020-11-14T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2020-11-14T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:16:01","slug":"new-nonfiction-civil-rights-and-climate-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"New nonfiction: Civil Rights and Climate Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Freedom-Summer-for-Young-People-309x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1188\" width=\"151\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Freedom-Summer-for-Young-People.jpg 309w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Freedom-Summer-for-Young-People-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Freedom-Summer-for-Young-People-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><figcaption> <br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My YA adaptation of Bruce Watson&#8217;s riveting book <em>Freedom Summer<\/em> came out this month, published by Seven Stories Press. It was a tremendous honor to be chosen to adapt this powerful story for young readers. I&#8217;m especially happy that the book includes the voices of many of the young people who went to Mississippi for that murderous, momentous summer and of the Black activists who taught, fought, died, and inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/How-to-Change-Everything.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1189\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/How-to-Change-Everything.jpg 265w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/How-to-Change-Everything-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/How-to-Change-Everything-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2021 Simon &amp; Schuster will publish <em>How to Change Everything,<\/em> in which I adapted the climate and social justice writings of Naomi Klein into a volume for young people. Drawing on her experiences in settings as diverse as the Great Barrier Reef and the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, as well as on her years of reporting on topics such as disaster capitalism and climate change, <em>How to Change Everything<\/em> highlights the important work of young activists around the world and offers inspiration and tools for others&#8211;young or old&#8211;who want to change the world for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My YA adaptation of Bruce Watson&#8217;s riveting book Freedom Summer came out this month, published by Seven Stories Press. It was a tremendous honor to be chosen to adapt this powerful story for young readers. I&#8217;m especially happy that the book includes the voices of many of the young people who went to Mississippi for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,72,27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-history","category-work-life","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}