Conceivable Future creates conversations: we make space for people to share dreams, fears, hopes. By bringing people together - through house parties, testimonies, and other forms of community-building - we help develop and sustain an activist community that can be stronger than the challenges we face. We offer a framework for understanding our individual experiences collectively, linking those experiences to the histories of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism that have shaped all of our lives.

We focus on family planning because it reveals the heart of the climate story. We think of it like a core sample: a cylindrical section of something—ice, earth, or a tree, say— that cuts through all the layers, revealing its nature and changes through time. A focus on reproduction in the context of climate change exposes what’s at issue, for all of us.

Some of us look to the future and can’t imagine bringing children into a heating, struggling world. For some of us, exposure to the fossil fuel industry has already affected our health, or the health of our children. Parenthood has galvanized many of us towards greater action. For most of us, threats to our reproductive freedom have been radicalizing. The climate is growing more dangerous as restrictions are increasing on reproductive self-determination and care becomes less accessible.

Our participants share their stories with each other, and, if they wish, with the wider world through video, audio, and written testimonies. Amid a proliferation of numbers, graphs and thousand-page committee reports, the lived, spoken truth has the power to cut through the noise. In nearly a decade of house parties, we’ve been educated, shocked, moved to tears, and pushed forward by displays of personal courage.