To learn where we need to go, we have to learn where we’ve been. Take #WaterActionWednesday time today to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community in the environmental 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
Clean Water Celebrates Pride! with Bethany Dickerson
Clean Water Celebrates Pride! with Micael Glackin
Working at Clean Water Action from the Queer Perspective
with Canvass Supervisor Mare Carbone & Bob Wendelgass, recently retired as President and CEO
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/
Queer Environmentalism and Its Impacts on Modern Communities
Working at Clean Water Action from the Queer Perspective
Clean Water Action is celebrating our 50th anniversary and Pride Month with a special blog post! We are incredibly fortunate that, in our most recent diversity survey, 36% of our staff identified as queer. Our LGBTQ+ Caucus had the chance to connect with some longstanding queer colleagues to hear
