Black Feminist Ecological Perspectives (Mar 18, 2021)

The first webinar of CGSHR’s Spring 2021 Speaker Series, “Prospects for Sustainable Peace at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and the Climate Crisis” at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

“Black Women and the Nature of Fugitivity” — Tiya’s presentation

Early thinkers in the Black feminist literary tradition worked with the materiality and symbolism of nature to imagine as well as to enact free lives. Can their form of environmental consciousness, forged in the fires of slavery, speak to today’s existential threats?