In Conversation: A Listening Series on Climate Justice and Collective Liberation

This episode brings together five queer and trans climate justice organizers to talk about how struggles for queer and trans liberation connect with fights for climate justice. From cities across the U.S. to Belgium and Botswana, we discuss how queer and trans people, particularly those of color, are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; how personal experiences with homophobia and transphobia have impacted our lives; and the ways in which systemic violence and oppression towards those who defy gender norms often leave members of queer and trans communities abandoned, homeless, and forced to survive with little to no resources or support in times of climate crisis.

Welcome to In Conversation, a listening series and project of Our Climate Voices. Our fights for social and climate justice are often saturated by urgency and calls to action. In this series, we'll be slowing down to hold space for deep, vulnerable and honest conversation to foster the growth that is necessary to sustain and propel our movements forward. We are bringing together leaders from the climate movement and broader fights for justice to be in conversation about how we can build deep relationships and Coalition's across struggle to achieve collective liberation, growth and transformation. I'm your host, Kia Johnson. I hope you enjoy this series. On this episode of In Conversation, we've brought together four leaders from the Disability Justice Movement, Patty Berne, Layel Camargo, Kera Sherwood-O'Regan, and Daphne Frias, we will dialogue about how our struggles for Disability Justice, connect with our fight for climate justice, and explore their knowledge and vision of how we can build a climate just future. Warning, we did have some technical difficulties during this conversation. And so there will be places where it seems we may have stopped and picked back up. And that's because we did. Anyway, thanks for joining. Let's dive in.