‘Remember When You Sweep’ is a youthful poetry project by Diandra Marizet Esparza. In this imaginative poem, Diandra draws lessons of existence and mutuality with nature from lessons connected to her Mexican-American upbringing in the Southwest. Revealing how wisdom, stewardship, healing and resilience are nurtured in our everyday relationships to land, this poem is embellished by the many environmental symbols that shaped the writer’s cultural understanding of environmentalism.

Diandra writes with hopes of not only preserving ancestral lessons but calling attention to lost philosophies that have long shaped people’s relationship to land and can help us embrace cultural returns today.

Diandra distributes this zine for free at youth events to help raise awareness of the role culture can play in shaping rising generations of environmental leaders.

In a recent Adventure.com artcile, "Intersectional Environmentalist co-founder Diandra Marizet Esparza on identity and the magic of Monarch butterflies”, Diandra unpacks the significant role butterflies play as just one of many symbols featured in the zine and how they have shaped Indigenous philosophies and methods of colonial resistance.