Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸
climate justice organiser, co-founder of the AWETHU School of Organising, speaker and bestselling author of IT'S NOT THAT RADICAL (DK, 2023) and Climate Is Just The Start (Random House Children's, 2025)
Safina Launchpad Fellow 2025
mikaelaloach.com
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Our Fall 2025 catalog is here! Featuring new books from @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, Hamid Dabashi, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and many more!
- Announcement: I'm going on US book tour in a couple weeks! The wonderful @haymarketbooks.org are publishing It's Not That Radical in the US in July (you can preorder it from them now at 20% off!) Chicago, New York City, Philly - I'll be seeing you soon! Ticket links on my website!
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today. The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸📚LEFT BOOK CLUB EVENT📚 @leftbookclub.bsky.social Learning Together, Rising Together with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @mikaelaloach.bsky.social & more 🗓️Sat, May 24 ⏰2:30 pm 📍Halkevi - Community Cafe & Centre
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Oh, hello. euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸listen up, climate policies have resulted in the avoidance of greenhouse gases and global emissions would be way higher had we done nothing here is a wall of text from the IPCC report with evidence www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w... IPCC AR6 WG3 Chapter 14 Cross Chapter box 10 (14-43, line 39)
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Today we handed in an incredible ONE MILLION signatures calling on the UK Government to stop new oil and gas. A huge thank you to everyone who added their name, and to @carladenyer.bsky.social and @elliechowns.bsky.social for coming out to show your support 👏
- Wondering "What Can We Do??" about all the issues in our world? I've started a free newsletter series of interviews with organisers from the most impacted communities of today's biggest crises. The first one is about Ukraine 🇺🇦, with Ukrainian climate activist Viktoriya Ball: shorturl.at/1ocpY
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸"Making anything better is worth it. Saving anyone is worth it. Feeling the grief and channeling it into action is always worth it." Safina Center Fellow @mikaelaloach.bsky.social reminds us that it's never too late to fight for a just and sustainable world. #activism #climate #conservation 🌍
- Is anyone here involved with the new Climate Justice degree at Sussex uni? I'd love to chat with the course organisers!
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸For younger readers, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social has authored CLIMATE IS JUST THE START 🤩📖♥️ #loveisclimateaction #shopsmall #writingcommunity #booklove #books #tbr #climate #climatecrisis #climatejustice #booklovers #writing #climatestories #climatestorytelling #hearourvioces #diversebooks #ownvoice
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Big snaps for Mikaela Loach author of IT’S NOT THAT RADICAL🫰🏾📖❤️ Each month of 2025, I’m picking a climate book and gabbing about it. We desperately need good climate stories. And I’m happy to spread the word about ones that speak to me! Thanks @mikaelaloach.bsky.social for your take on:
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸MO* sprak met auteur, influencer en klimaatactiviste Mikaela Loach: ‘In de klimaatbeweging moeten we mensen niet bang maken voor de toekomst, maar hun tonen dat we een betere wereld kunnen bereiken als we ons inzetten.’
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Well, it’s January 127th and we’re doing the best we can… thankfully, we have help. Here are 4 books the 350.org team loves that inspire hope and action for a better future:
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸We're feeling extra energised after seeing Mikaela Loach and Domi Palmer last night at The Bristol Cable event. They chatted climate justice that liberates everyone & creates an equitable energy transition. A great reminder to bring joy into climate action (especially dancing!)
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸"Your days of profiting off our lives are numbered." In May Mikaela Loach confronted Shell's board and shareholders at the company's AGM, describing how its activities in the Niger Delta had polluted the water, leading to several deaths. She was escorted out of the venue by security. bit.ly/3QY1Stl
- I just found out (via The Atlantic) that Meta stole my book to train their AI. No permissions asked or granted, no compensation. They stole my words on climate justice, liberation, anti-capitalism, resisting white supremacy and my heartbreak over my enslaved ancestors to train their fucking AI. Wow.
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸@mikaelaloach.bsky.social : "You can’t change the world without your feelings. If you are not moved by the world, you will not act to move the world. It’s that simple. So hold on to your soft heart. It’s the most important thing you can do!"
- . Got Eco-Anxiety? This Activist Is Showing Us How to Keep Hope Alive - Good On You Find out more: goodonyou.eco/mikaela-loach... #ClimateAction
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸The AWETHU School of Organising is an educational initiative in London dedicated to empowering individuals & communities through political education & tools for grassroots organising. Launched by Mikaela Loach & others. Support their amazing work on Open Collective: opencollective.com/awethu
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Picked up 'It's Not That Radical' by Mikaela Loach for a reading challenge and I just want to recommend it to everyone. It's the first time I've really felt seen - as a working class queer person - in a climate discussion, and that together we actually CAN and actually WILL make a difference <3
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸I just read about this in It’s Not That Radical by Mikaela Loach. Highly recommend her book! Everyone has a place in the revolution, we don’t need to wait for heroes. 💖
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸2024-43. It's not that radical, by Mikaela Loach - 5/5 Amazing, motivating and educational! Despite thinking I know climate issues well, I learnt a lot, especially about expanding the future we imagine: the connection between climate and socio-economic problems. Totally recommend! 💙📚
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...
- I just finished reading Sunrise On The Reaping and I fear I will never be over it 😭
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸It's Not That Radical by Mikaela Loach is one of the most empowering and hopeful climate books I've read.
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸In gesprek met auteur, influencer en klimaatactiviste Mikaela Loach: ‘Klimaatactivisme heeft betere marketing nodig’
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸. Got Eco-Anxiety? This Activist Is Showing Us How to Keep Hope Alive - Good On You Find out more: goodonyou.eco/mikaela-loach... #ClimateAction
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Safina Center Fellow @mikaelaloach.bsky.social's new book, "Climate is Just the Start" is OUT NOW! The book offers young readers a guide to tackling the #climate crisis through an approach of hope and big-hearted optimism. 🌍 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752314...
- My first children's book is out today in the US, Canada and Australia (and some UK booksellers too)! An accessible book on climate justice, HOPE, holding on to big feelings, capitalism, white supremacy and race, histories of resistance and what young people can do about it all. I'm so proud of it.
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- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
- The (starred!!) review: The book's author:
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸#Climate activism is "not about stopping this disaster. It's about making a better world, where all of us get to live freer, more dignified, more joyful lives." - @mikaelaloach.bsky.social speaks on Building #Equity in #ClimateAction to @tnlcomfund.bsky.social Climate Action Fund projects.
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸@mikaelaloach.bsky.social hello! I've just finished your book, and I just wanted to drop a quick message to say: THANK YOU for writing such a lovely, educational & inspirational book!! I've learned loads from it, but most importantly you've empowered me to hope & motivated me to Do Something!!
- My first kids' book comes out just ONE WEEK today! So here's a list of books that inspired it (from The Hunger Games to @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's works!) including a discount code to preorder it from indie bookshops! uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
- TODAY Shell are in the UK's High Court in London over the harms they have inflicted on the health of the Ogale and Bille communities of the Niger Delta in Nigeria. This case is HUGE. WATCH our intervention at Shell's AGM:
- 13,000 people from the Ogale and Bille communities of the Niger Delta - where Shell's extraction means the life expectancy is only 41 years old - have taken Shell to court in this case, demanding Shell clean up their spilled oil and compensate them for loss of livelihoods from farming and fishing.
- Stand in solidarity with the communities of the Niger Delta, against Shell and for the right to a healthy environment free from extractivist violence. There are solidarity rallies happening at the Royal Courts of Justice today - join them if you can!
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day
- I'm so excited to announce that I've been awarded a Safina Centre Launchpad Fellowship! As a fellow, I'll be writing my next book (on the billionaire class), running another cohort of the AWETHU School of Organising and continuing my videojournalism series with frontline organisers. 2025, let's go!!
- We're welcoming author, organizer, and speaker @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and environmentalist and educator @isaiashernandez.bsky.social to the Safina Center team! We're also unveiling the new Judy Bergsma Scholarship, supporting the early careers of talented creators! ow.ly/wWOb50UPP8l
- A momentous day for people and planet! The Tories unlawfully pushed through the approval of Rosebank - a field which would produce more emissions than 28 countries annually. This result is a testament to never giving up, even when it can feel like the odds are stacked against you.
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸I want to hear about your organising wins ✊ Your submissions will contribute to global research on collective power that will be made available for other organisers to draw on. Fill out this form and forward to fellow organisers! forms.gle/g7KJkGCQBXC2...
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸This post (available 15 Dec) offers 3 books (good gifts) a podcast and a TedTalk! My No. 1 pick this year is It’s Not That Radical by @mikaelaloach.bsky.social perfect for anyone at any point in their journey of #climatejustice 💖
- I said I would write more in this space than the other one, but right now I am extremely burned out and need a BIG break from being perceived and online. Hopeful I'll return from this break renewed and willing/able to share more thoughts on here!
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸pov your supervisor invites you to speak about your research in their lecture on decolonial feminism! proud and grateful💛
- I saw Wicked again last night and I genuinely understand what she meant by "holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity"
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸My current #climatechange read is “It’s Not That Radical - Climate Action to Transform Our World” by @mikaelaloach.bsky.social who is a Caribbean Climate activist and also just wrote a children’s book about Climate action
- 17 years ago my mum brought me to see Wicked on the West End for my 9th birthday. Now, I've taken her to the Wicked movie premiere and we walked the emerald carpet together. Moments like this where I get to give back to my mum, after she has given me so much, are magic 🥹
- Reposted by Mikaela Loach 📖🇵🇸Today I am mostly reading @mikaelaloach.bsky.social’s BRILLIANT book. It can be hard not to dip into despair when you pay attention to climate justice issues & despair is the enemy of action. This book is electrifyingly hopeful, clear & honest about neo-colonialism - often ignored in climate spaces
