Orion Magazine

IN THIS ISSUE, we turn our attention to color, to how human interpretations of nature’s hues cast meanings that can unite or divide us from each other and from the environment. In “The Snarled Lines of Justice,” ecowarriors reframe the era of climate change in women’s words; Max Liboiron writes about the radical act of aligning science with nature rather than empire; Natalie Rose Richardson confronts the co-opted legacy of the rattlesnake; Soraya Matos shares a photo essay on “The Ghost People of Tanzania”; Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams finds life emerging from deep seas and new fires; Laurel Nakanishi swims with shark gods in Pearl Harbor; Ama Codjoe considers the soil that bears witness to America; Camille Dungy measures love by the cubic yard; read words from inside a prison in a collaboration with The Marshall Project; and Rose Thater Brian-Imai shares paintings and notes on living in kinship with nature. This issue features 100% writers, photographers, scientists, poets, activists, and