Facts from the Film
Near the end of the film Jimmy says to Natalia and Yarrow, after saying that they would rather have them than a stockpile of a can of goods, that ‘We are all we have, but we are also all we _______.’
What is ‘need’?
One of the main points of the film is to show the link between climate justice and ___________.
What is queer, transgender, black, brown and immigrant justice?
According to one speaker in the film there are really _____ (hint its a number) Floridas.
What is Three Floridas?
The thing that most of the queer and transgender people say brought them or kept them in Florida.
What is the ecosystem (the trees, plants, nature, etc)?
The opening scene the main speaker tells us that Floridians come together after the storm and building power and building ‘Self-____________’.
What is self-determination?
Lakey says that the reason why Florida (and Wisconsin) get hit so hard is that they are test states for the American ______________________________ model bills.
What is the American Legislative Exchange Council?
Land gentrification and climate displacement in Miami plays out by drastically impacting _____________ which is currently on elevated land.
What is Little Haiti?
Jimmy uses _______ aid as an avenue of resistance and advocacy for queer and trans and historically marginalized people during in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
What is mutual aid ?
Rebecca tells us that Florida is surrounded on three sides by _________ which is also super important to the ecology and diversity that is Florida.
What is water?
It is repeated by different interviewees (starting with Libre) that different systems (capitalism, the Legislature, the law, etc) consistently try to ____________ rather than unify marginalized people in the state.
What is separate and divide people?
Robin tells us that approximately ____ million dollars had been set aside in relief funds for Orla Vista in 2017 but the work still had not been done when Ian hit.
What is 11 million?
Jimmy says the state (Florida) is responding to the situation through disaster _______________
What is disaster militarism ?
The Waters of Destiny film cut into Can’t Stop Change was created by ___________________.
What is the Army Corps of Engineers ?
After Lakey’s interview Robin states that, even though she doesn’t want that, they (her organization) is helping people _________.
What is leave Florida?
Libre (first interviewee) moved to Miami because the ______________ culture was closer to home for them/elle (home being Puerto Rico).
What is Caribbean Culture/cultura caribeña ?
Houston is a member of the _________ clan.
What is the Otter clan which is one of the families of the Miccosukee tribe?
Libre and Natalia visit the 2010 __________________ memorial commemorating survivors.
What is the Haitian earthquake?
Osvaldo says that it is hard to hear people (especially Christains) in the street say that being LGBTQ is a _______ because we have always existed, we have always been here.
What is a fad?
Ecofeminism is ____________.
What is the theory that links the systems that marginalize human groups and marginalize and control the earth, nature, ecosystems (like the Everglades in Florida)?
Dr. Jane Caputi’s class focusing on issues such as ecofeminism, that Rebecca teaches sections of, is titled _____________ and Climate Change (mentioned in memos by the Florida Dept. of Education).
What is Gender?
According to Barbara ______ percent of Miami will be underwater by 2060.
What is about 60%?
Valencia tells us that queer and transgender folx have to worry about both natural and _________________ storms (shock).
What are legislative storms or policy disasters?
Houston makes a very good argument backing up that ____________ is not a thing of the past but is still here and a huge part of the infrastructure of power.
What is colonization?
Terra says that police _________________ is happening everywhere like it is in Cop City including in Tallahassee by Mayor John Dailey.
What is militarization?
The subtitle of the film.
What is “Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines!”??
Terra says that when the state fails us we have to look out for __________ not just through small acts of kindness but building institutions that meet people’s needs in ways the state can’t or won’t.
What is each other?
Houston says he thinks of Florida (and America) as a __________ imposed upon this land.
What is a structure?
Matias says that it is really hard to be __________ and _________ and trans and live in Florida.
What is Black and brown?
At the end of the film Valencia ends with the quote that ‘We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors but we borrow it from our __________.'
What is children?
The link between mutualism and mutability is…
What is a continuum that pushes towards something better, more diversity working in the framework of queer ecology that sees the issues in the natural world in light of queer theory focused on mutability creating change and diversity and linking that to a planet run by change and mutualism as a body that focuses on how we are bound together and can create change together as a way of life that embraces history and strangeness and mutualistic ‘active abundance’?