Ms. Magazine. April 22nd, 2020. By Heidi Hutner
This has to be the strangest Earth Day week, ever. I live in New York. Here, in the center of the pandemic, life is far from normal.
As an ecofeminist writer, filmmaker and professor, this is usually a “peak week” for me and my students. Under normal circumstances, we would be preparing for our campus “Earthstock” festival at Stony Brook University, where I teach. We would be creating art and environmental activist installations, showing our short student-made environmental films, volunteering at a local organic farm or marching for the climate in New York City or Washington, D.C.