This Friday, Nov. 15, Charlotte Henay, Lecturer at Brock’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, will be joined by two external experts in a panel presentation titled \u201cClimate Justice, Gender, and Environmental Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margot Francis, Associate Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and co-organizer of the event, explains that the panel will highlight the ways in which \u201cminoritized communities suffer disproportionate harm from environmental toxification.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe impact of environmental devastation is not currently and has never been felt equally by everyone,\u201d says Francis. \u201cCommunities in the global south who have been least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions are being harder hit, and in Canada, Indigenous and black communities have always been more vulnerable to environmental racism.\u201d<\/p>\n
The presentation includes three talks by the panel\u2019s experts. Ingrid Waldron, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University, will give a talk titled \u201cNot in my backyard: the politics of race, place and waste in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n
Waldron is the director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project) and author of the award-winning book\u00a0There\u2019s Something in the Water: Environmental<\/em> Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities<\/em>, which was the basis of a documentary film that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this fall.<\/p>\n Adrianne Lickers Xavier is an Onondaga woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at McMaster University. She will speak on \u201cFood sovereignty, gender and sustainability at Six Nations,\u201d describing the Our Sustenance Greenhouse project led by women at Six Nations, which is dedicated to garden production, food storage, health, self-care and traditional Haudenosaunee knowledge and values.<\/p>\n In \u201cAfter Dorian: a social geography of climate crisis,\u201d Henay will\u00a0examine the impact of\u00a0Hurricane Dorian\u00a0in the Bahamas and foreground local mobilizing to recover from\u00a0that devastation.<\/p>\n Henay says she is \u201clooking forward to an engaging exchange about the collective impact and importance of the climate crisis resulting from colonially induced environmental changes.\u201d<\/p>\n The event, which takes place Friday, Nov. 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. in Brock’s Charles A. Sankey Chamber, is cosponsored by the Office of Human Rights and Equity, the Women\u2019s Campus Safety Grant, and the Social Justice Research Institute, among others. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Friday, Charlotte Henay, Lecturer at Brock’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, will be joined by two external experts in a panel presentation titled \u201cClimate Justice, Gender, and Environmental Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":62013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4767,1,4,38],"tags":[8440,6055,8441,8442,8443,522,8439,5112,5502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62012"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62080,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012\/revisions\/62080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}