To learn where we need to go, we must first understand where we’ve been. Take time today to learn more about the history and leadership of LGBTQ+ leaders in the Environmental Protection movement!
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Pride Profile: Rachel Carson - Queer Marine Biologist, Author, and Environmentalist
In Silent Spring, Carson wrote, “In nature nothing exists alone.” We are inextricably linked to our environments and to each other. Those forces that endeavor to isolate and alienate us are the antithesis of human community. Queer joy is found in the recognition of one another, the connection and common good of the collective bound by love. The shout in the darkness that rings, “I am not alone! We are not alone!” It is in the moment that we hear it, and reach out in spite of fear, that we build something unshakeable.
Queer Environmentalism and Its Impacts on Modern Communities
We all live on Earth, but due to centuries of historical systematic neglect, certain communities carry a heavier burden of climate change, and this needs to be included in activist conversations. By acknowledging and understanding the unique challenges and burdens faced by queer communities and advocating for their rights within the broader environmental movement, we challenge the norm of whom our built environments are made for.
Clean Water Staff Highlights
Queer Environmentalism and Its Impacts on Modern Communities - By Bethany Dickerson
Hats Off to June, Pride, and 29 years with Clean Water Action - By Mare Carbone
Additional Reading
The Rainbow Pride Flag and Its Connection to the Environment
https://www.treehugger.com/the-rainbow-flag-and-its-connection-to-the-environment-5184819
Queering Environmental Justice
https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/queering-environmental-justice
What the queer community brings to the fight for climate justice
https://grist.org/article/what-the-queer-community-brings-to-the-fight-for-climate-justice/
Why the Climate Crisis is a Queer and Trans Rights Issue
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/ecologue/2021/06/24/why-the-climate-crisis-is-a-queer-and-trans-rights-issue/
