
Christy Rodgers

Christy lives in San Francisco. She lived and worked in Central America during the last years of the Cold War, and found her way to socio-ecological ideas through journeys in the Southern Hemisphere and time spent at the Huehuecoyotl community in Mexico. In the early 2000s, she produced a print journal called What If? Journal of Radical Possibilities. Her essays and tales have appeared in several print publications and online, primarily at Dissident Voice and CounterPunch. She believes in the personal truth of the words: We must cultivate our gardens. Her blog is What If? tales, transformations, possibilities.
My Posts


The Listening Post
Christy Rodgers
18th July, 2016
'I don’t remember how old I was when I was taught to tend the listening post...' A dispatch from an arid future.

Baucis and Philemon in the 21st Century
Christy Rodgers
3rd February, 2016
On childlessness, and living small, in an age of endless expansion.

Is the World Living or Dead? Or, the Trouble with Science
Christy Rodgers
30th August, 2014
Christy Rodgers on measurement, consciousness and the lure of power over matter.

The End of the End of Nature
Christy Rodgers
14th May, 2014
When we lose the concept of 'wilderness' we lose a part of ourselves. How can we get it back?

The Bellwethers
Christy Rodgers
13th November, 2013
But that was just it – even though the numbers were there, and test after...