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
Reproductive Justice and Cis-temic Barriers to Care: A Conversation with Nora AVK
Hey guys, this is a REALLY IMPORTANT episode!
We are joined by Nora AVK, a phenomenal reproductive justice advocate. They are President of UofT Students for Choice, a member on the Board of the Directors of both the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Hubs, and a trained abortion doula. We get into a discussion about how both queer justice and climate change are related to reproductive justice. We hear about barriers that many trans, non-binary, two-spirit, and genderqueer folks face in accessing reproductive health services. We also get to learn from Nora about the enormous reproductive violence being perpetrated during the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
It's an incredible episode, please enjoy!
Check out Nora’s work here:
- Nora’s Instagram
- UofT Students for Choice
- Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Hubs
Key resources we discuss:
[2:55] Sister Song’s Definition of Reproductive Justice
[4:40] ’Intersectionality’, a term coined by Kimberly Crenshaw
[9:05] Testimony in Out Magazine about barriers in queer access to abortions
[11:30] Study about inequalities in access to healthcare for 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Canada
[23:00] Reproductive Justice’s links with climate justice: Human Rights Watch, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
[39:10] Links between anti-choice and anti-2SLGBTQIA hate: Guardian article, New York Magazine article
Additional info from the National LGBTQ Task Force in the US