Pattie Gonia

Like, yes, do we need more people at climate rallies?

Yes, but we also need bridge builders.

healers, jesters.

We need some tomfoolery in here.

We need some creativity in here.

We need some accountants to come in and do some accounting for these nonprofits.

Everyone has a role to play and everyone has the potential to be a part of generating a new world.

I love what you were saying about solution maxing, because I think, of course, the solutions don't get any of the press, right?

But they're so important to keeping the fire alive.

And I also think that fascists and people in power and people destroying this planet...

know that shedding light on the solutions means that we might actually be able to solve a problem and dream up a new world.

We have the solutions right here.

We just have to start taking action on them.

We have the solutions.

That is what is keeping me motivated nowadays to continue to do this work.

She's here.

Yeah, I think that when most people hear climate or activism and drag, these worlds are kind of hard to pair together.

But I think what's been really important for me to learn throughout my drag career is that drag was founded as a political art form.

Drag was purposely founded on the work throughout thousands of years of jesters throughout society that were some of the only people who could tell the king or the royal court the truth.

were some of the only people who could use humor or creativity or costuming or design or a play to tell a story that might be even more truthful than the truth itself.