Queer Climate Futures

A Digital Archive of Oral History Interviews with Queer and Feminist Activists in the Climate Justice Movement

  • Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory

    Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory

    Feminist Political Ecologist and Steering Committee Member of the Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal and the Hive Fund for Climate & Gender Justice  “Our personal experiences with violence committed against our bodies as women, trans, and nonbinary people mirrors the extraction and destruction experienced by the planet.” Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory (she/her) is a Black ecowomanist and feminist political ecologist who advocates for women of color and feminist environmental, energy, and climate justice. She is a co-founding member of the Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal, a transnational feminist collaboration aimed at developing intersectional climate change policy. She also… Read more here.

  • Kate Weiner

    Kate Weiner

    Creative Director of Loam  “A world with climate and gender justice, to me, looks like a world that has diversity of thought, of expression, diversity of ecosystems, diversity of relationships, and of communities.” Kate (she/her) is the creative director of Loam. As the publishing branch of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, Loam tells stories at the confluence of environmental, social and personal systems change. Kate talks to us about her approach to climate justice; how matriarchy can cultivate reciprocity and deconstruct binary thinking; and the role of care workers, healers, seed savers, and doulas in climate justice. The Loam Community … Read more here.

  • Vanessa Raditz

    Vanessa Raditz

    Co-Founder of Queer Ecojustice Project “I choose to reject the gender binary because it is at its roots a colonial structure that causes harm to both bodies and the land.”  As a co-founder of the Queer Ecojustice Project, Vanessa (they/them) approaches ecological issues through a queer lens. Vanessa is the director of Fire and Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change, a film that documents how Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the fires in Santa Rosa, California harmed the LGBTQ community. Vanessa draws from Black and Indigenous thought, introducing a paradigm in which we exist in relation… Read more here.

  • Rebecca Magee

    Rebecca Magee

    Founder of Sister Seasons “The oppressive systems that led to climate injustice are the same forces behind gender injustice.” Rebecca (she/her) became a feminist climate justice activist after her own journey with learning to care for her menstruating body in relation to caring for the Earth. At Sister Seasons, she works to guide women and all menstruating bodies to restoring their wellbeing through awareness of rhythms in nature and their own bodies. Drawing from climate science, ecology, alternative medicine, and intersectional feminism, she empowers women and menstruators to care for their bodies as a way to expand their capacity to… Read more here.