What if creativity is one of our most powerful tools for confronting climate collapse?

In this conversation, writer, activist, educator, and Harvard PhD candidate Karina Anastasia Mathew explores what art and literature can offer us in a moment increasingly defined by climate crisis, political uncertainty, and dystopian visions of the future.

Karina shares her own journey from writing utopian science fiction as a teenager to studying literature, climate, and speculative fiction—and ultimately realizing that scholarship, activism, and creative practice were never separate pursuits.

Together, we explore what it means to cultivate “fierce hope,” why dystopia isn't the only way to write about crisis, how our relationship to the past shapes what futures we can imagine, and why creati ...