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Entries by Mikki Morrissette

What a Fentanyl-Free America Means to Me

In July, I attended the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) Mid-Year Training Institute in Orlando, Florida — a midyear summit designed to focus on drugs. Training sessions improve baseline understanding to take home to communities, coalitions, and organizations. In partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), this summit was the first year to specifically […]

Taking Solace in the Ecofeminist Poetry of Mary Oliver

In the 1980s, ecofeminism emerged, combining feminist and environmentalist theory in the anti-capitalist assertion that the oppression of women and the oppression of the environment are strongly rooted together. Both resources have been subjected to masculine exploitation. For my capstone project at Brandeis University (where I graduated in May before returning to Minnesota), I analyzed Oliver’s poetry with an ecofeminist approach.