COMPASSION IN CRISIS

COVER ART BY VYANA NOVUS

HOW DO WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF DISASTER?

A vibrant and holistic grassroots guide to disaster preparedness, this expanded and updated edition of Compassion in Crisis explores community-shaped strategies to practically navigate challenges posed by overlapping catastrophes—be they environmental, economic, political, or otherwise.

A COMMUNITY TEXTBOOK

With engaging prompts, concise checklists, and heartfelt guidance, Compassion in Crisis leads readers in building and sustaining durable mutual aid networks for rapid response in the face of disaster. This is your invitation into the lifelong work of caring for our earth and for one another through the polycrisis.

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER

Support independent publishing. Ordering now helps Compassion in Crisis reach more hands. All preorders ship May 17, 2026 with a limited edition postcard pack.

PRAISE FOR
COMPASSION IN CRISIS

"As we enter an era of climate shifts and more frequent, layered catastrophes, this is the book you want beside you to navigate the realities of disaster and recovery. Drawing from survivors, practitioners, and thinkers, this book offers a guide to cultivating the kind of attentiveness and care that might help us think about preparedness holistically, from philosophical ideas about how our experiences of time shift to practical and profound advice that can move the needle towards justice in the aftermath of grief and loss. Kate, Kailea and their contributors help us consider what it takes to move through change and the kinds of transformation that are inevitable in the wake and shadows of disasters, acknowledging that systems and institutions can and do fail us, and showing where and how communities can be created, revitalized, and mobilized to step in and step up for each other."

- Candis Callison, member of Tāltān Nation and author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts