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Maya Weeks

Maya Weeks is a writer, artist, and geographer from rural California working on marine debris as capital accumulation, climate change, gender, and logistics. Catch Maya on a surfboard or on a boat or on Twitter at @looseuterus.

Essays & Reviews

Polar Amplifications

By Maya WeeksApril 6, 2018
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Essays & Reviews

Myth of the Garbage Patch

By Maya WeeksMay 22, 2015
The massive plastic trash gyre isn't an island, it's the disaster of capital circling the globe on ocean currents
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