Queers Hug Trees
Allegra and Amalie are two queers tree huggers. Our podcast is a collaborative exploration of the links between queerness and environmental justice. We’re asking what it means to be queer in the environmental justice movement, how we can address barriers to queer environmentalism, and what the environmental movement can learn from queer justice struggles. Join our disruptive knowledge journey to create resources for queering conversations about climate, biodiversity, and other environmental issues.
Queers Hug Trees
Trans Voices in Climate Spaces and Access to COP28
With this year's COP held in Dubai, we need to be having conversations about whose voices are actively excluded from climate spaces. In this episode, we begin the conversation in looking at trans activists' exclusion from COP28, and what this means for a broader politics of inclusion and the reinforcing of cisnormativity. Allegra brings in a case study of trans access to climate relief after Pakistan's floods, and what trans rights activists like Miss Major can teach the climate movement about solidarity. Amalie speaks to their own experience being queer at COP28, and what the future for inclusion at these conferences should look like.
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