Solarpunk Presents - The Challenges and Joys of Fostering Rescue Animals: With Rena Curtis

The Challenges and Joys of Fostering Rescue Animals: With Rena Curtis

10/21/24 • 61 min

If you’re a no-kill animal shelter or an animal rescue group and you’ve got more rescue animals than kennels to keep them in, or you’ve got dogs or cats with health or behavioral problems that need sorting out to make the beasts adoptable, what are you going to do? You’re going to call an animal fosterer like Rena Curtis to take that animal in, de-traumatize it, teach it some manners, and get its health problems sorted out so it can go a-courtin’ its forever people. Tune in as we discuss this hard, sometimes frightening, occasionally heart-wrenching, but ultimately satisfying work, why there are so many more dogs and cats than homes to put them in, and what we can do to change that situation.

You can follow Rena on Instagram at @sockmonkeylove33

To learn more about the animal rescue organizations she has fostered for, visit https://www.yavapaihumanetrappers.org/ and https://yavapaihumane.org/

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You can follow Rena on Instagram at @sockmonkeylove33

To learn more about the animal rescue organizations she has fostered for, visit https://www.yavapaihumanetrappers.org/ and https://yavapaihumane.org/

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6.3: Fully Automated! A Solarpunk RPG, with Andy Gross

This week on Solarpunk Presents, we’re bringing you an interview with Andy Gross, one of the brilliant minds behind Fully Automated! A Solarpunk TableTop RPG (Role-Playing Game). Don’t worry, you don’t need to know game jargon to follow along for this one - solarpunk storytelling comes in a lot of different forms, and this is yet another kind for people to use to imagine a kinder, greener future that strives towards a utopia ... of sorts.

RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

Art used in episode cover is by https://patreon.com/seanbodley and...

Links:

You can find Fully Automated at https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/

The Sogorea Te Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

Solarpunk 2050: http://solarpunk2050.de/

Solarpunk Pioneers Fund: http://solarpunk-pioneers.org/

Coyote & Crow: https://coyoteandcrow.net/

Lunar Echos: https://affinity-games.itch.io/

Neon Black: https://notwriting.itch.io/

Legacy: Life Among the Ruins: https://ufopress.co.uk/legacy-life-among-the-ruins/

Fighting for the Future: https://www.android-press.com/product-page/fighting-for-the-future-ebook

“Murder in the Tool Library” by AE Marling: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-in-the-tool-library-a-e-marling/1144354144

“Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto” by Aaron Bastani: https://www.versobooks.com/products/476-fully-automated-luxury-communism

“Four Futures: Life After Capitalism” by Peter Fraise: https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures

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6.5: Teaching Hopepunk Fiction with Dr Tanis MacDonald

On this episode of the podcast, Ariel chats with Dr Tanis MacDonald about her upcoming course in winter 2025 on hopepunk. What exactly is so punk about this kind of hope? Can hopepunk even be said to be a genre in its own right, or is it an aesthetic or lens that we can use to think through just why the characters are deciding to have hope in bleak situations?

Tune in for recommendations of hopepunk novels (and poetry!), ruminations on political hope, the centrality of relationships and radical empathy to these stories, and more. Plus some academic theories informing the formulations of hope, of course.

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