How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change . By Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton, with illustrations by Tessa Zettel

An ice cream cone, an umbrella, a winter hat, a swimsuit, a glass of water, a handheld fan, a cup of tea: tiny illustrations by Tessa Zettel pattern the cover of Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton’s How to Weather Together. The drawings come from one of the book’s ten insets—visual instructions for activities to build intellectual, creative, and activist community. “Weathering With & Without” asks participants to consider the things, technologies, and practices people use to manage weather and opens discussion about the ways that such objects and tools are unevenly distributed in our climate-changing world. The activity, like each of the others interspersed between the book’s chapters, asks readers to work toward the redistribution of shelter and vulnerability as we weather together into a queer, feminist, and anticolonial future. Neimanis and Hamilton present “weathering” as both theory and practice, building on the concept introduced by Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker in 2014. By adding the dimension of time to weather, Neimanis and Hamilton “link the experience of weather to the vastness and duration of climate change” (78) while working to build solidarity between feminist social justice and environmental justice concerns. Weathering as a feminist concept erodes hierarchical and binary thinking while emphasizing that both bodies and places are differently exposed to weather.