Holsopple: But Marie Martin changes her mind.

Listen, sometimes you have to do things that people say are wrong for a good cause.” She kissed her forehead. Here’s an excerpt where Marie talks to her daughter about it.Īudio excerpt: And yuh auntie and me not going to prison, so stop worry. And her young daughter doesn’t want her to do it.

It’s about a Jamaican woman who, with her sister, fishes for parrotfish which is important to the health of coral reefs. Holsopple: This year’s first-place winner is “ The Metamorphosis of Marie Martin ” by Nadine Tomlinson. I went back to the drawing board with a few people, and we decided that Imagine 2200 is going to be a little bit different in its call to action in that it’s going to be about climate solutions and hope, but it’s also going to be about justice and intersectionality and connecting with our allies in other movements that we care about. It also has these other things at the table, like caring for immigrants. What we noticed is like, wow, it’d be really interesting to situate a climate fiction contest that has more than just the focus of climate. We held in high regard Indigenous wisdom and knowledge and things that could come to the table that could be a climate solution that was not a tech-focused solution. showing up for folks with disabilities, calling out anti-Blackness and standing up for Black folk. So they went on their quest, and what we found was a lot of the things that old-world environmentalists would call kind of adjacent to climate were center. The folks we brought together come from a cross-section of America that’s very diverse: queer folks, disabled folks, BIPOC individuals, and a variety of people from different parts of the climate sector. He said, “How cool would it be to bring four people onto a Zoom, and there’s a timeline where they have to get from now to 2200 and everything, be clean, green, and just buy this 180-year mark, and it’s their choice as to how they play this game and role play?”

The other gentleman had a background in creating role-playing games and said, you can use roleplaying games as a way to do a visioning quest. So we quickly switched to Zoom because of the pandemic, and the facilitator – two of them that we would work with – had a background in visioning and how to get people to talk and think and explore things that are outside of their daily scope. Right when the pandemic was getting started, we had an event that was going to take place in the woods.

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