22/04/2022
🌏 EARTH DAY GIVEAWAY 🌏
The theme of this year's Earth day is ‘invest in our planet’. Investing in our planet is more than just practicing sustainability. Environmental justice and racial justice are inextricably linked. In order to create a movement of change we must focus on intersectional environmentalism.
In 2020, Black climate activist and now author, Leah Thomas coined the term ‘Intersectional Environmentalism’: “An inclusive form of environmentalism advocating for the protection of all people + the planet. Derived from the work of the Combahee River Collective + later, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term intersectionality in 1989. “Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.
As Thomas defines it: intersectional environmentalism identifies the ways in which injustices targeting frontline communities + the earth are intertwined and addresses the non-inclusive character of the climate movement, urging the world to address the issue in a more holistic manner.
We strongly feel that voices such as Leah's deserve to be amplified.
Which is why we are excited to give away 4 of her newest book, The Intersectional Environmentalist to some of our lovely followers.
In order to participate:
1. follow both us and
2. Like this post
3. Tag two friends who would also enjoy participating 😊
The winner will be announced Friday 29th April!
Until then, keep liking and tagging! 💚💚
