Friday, September 12 2025, 12:40 - 1:30pm MLC 348 Vanessa Raditz Friday Speaker Series "Storymapping Queer Climate Justice" Raditz's research explores the cultural geographies of queer ecojustice movements. Using collaborative documentary film and other critical visual methodologies, they address the contextual vulnerability of multiply-marginalized queer, trans, and two-spirit communities to climate change disasters, as well as the lessons for the climate justice movement that come from our communities' resilience and histories of struggle for liberation. They are inspired by decolonial and abolitionist theories that center the healing and reweaving of mind, body, spirit, land, community, place, and home in the collective liberation of people and the planet. Using queer as both verb and noun, they seek to understand the ontology, epistemology and praxis of the queer ecojustice movement: what are the worldviews, ways of knowing, theories, and strategies for the transformation of the world that emerge from queer ecojustice organizers whose embodiments and actions disrupt normative status-quo ways of knowing and being? Flyer for Raditz speaker event (2.11 MB)
