Precisely because human cruelty tends to drop out of our conversations, I want to insist that we linger with it. It is terrible stuff to have to stay with for too long, but those who suffer, whether human or more-than-human, don't have a choice. They have to stay with it, because they are experiencing it. At the very least, we who have not yet been drawn into the vortex of violence are called to recognize it, name it, and resist it; we are called to bear witness and to offer care.
Deborah Bird Rose. Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being Trashed
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Book edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan and Heather Anne Swanson.
There is a interview with Deborah Bird Rose by Thom van Dooren conducted shortly before her death in 2018 on SoundCloud, Shimmer.