Beyond Survival: Eco-Feminist Imaginings in Precarious Times keynote

Feb 23, 2021 | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program
Online
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The Alice Paul Center’s year-long programming theme Environmental Feminisms concerns the overlapping projects of environmental justice, feminist activism, indigenous epistemologies, and artistic performance as feminist method.

Amidst ever more urgent calls to address climate change at global and local levels, there is a crucial need to form cross-disciplinary and coalitional approaches to prevent further stratification of existing social inequalities in the wake of climate disasters, resource scarcity, and public health crises more generally. Climate change has increased pressure on social programming and public resources and highlighted the precarity of public infrastructures that serve vulnerable communities. In what ways can gender and sexuality as social categories of analysis be leveraged to enact significant political shifts in the management of climate crisis? What can be learned from transnational feminist organizing to combat climate change? Beyond Survival: Eco-Feminist Imaginings in Precarious Times features 3 keynote talks with responses from members of the Penn GSWS/APC community.

Cindy Wiesner, a 30-year veteran of the social justice movement in the U.S. and internationally, is the Executive Director of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. She helped co-found the Climate Justice Alliance and played a leadership role in the Peoples Climate Movement that organized the massive mobilizations in New York, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco in recent years. She is currently an advisor to Groundswell’s Liberation Fund. Cindy is a lesbian of Salvadoran, Colombian and German descent and a grassroots feminist, internationalist, and movement strategist and lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Who: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program

Where: Online

When: 23 February 2021  Time: 06:00 PM EST