Krasny, Elke. ‘#Climate Feminism.’ How:// Do We Speak #Feminism?// New Global Challenges – A Glossary, FKW 70 (2022)

Krasny, Elke. ‘#Climate Feminism.’ How:// Do We Speak #Feminism?// New Global Challenges – A Glossary, FKW 70 (2022)

Vanessa Nakate, an 18-year-old Ugandan climate justice activist
who spoke at the COP 26 in 2021, states on Twitter that “Climate
Justice is Gender Justice”. Nakate writes: “There is so much to
learn about the climate crisis, and learning about the climate crisis
means learning from the voices that are on the front lines. We can’t
have climate justice if voices from the most affected areas are being
left behind” (Nakate 2021). A vast array of climate activist organizations
– such as GirlsClimateActionJamaica and Youth4Nature, to
name just two – womyn, girls, queer, trans, non-binary, and gender
non-conforming persons are the driving forces of the environmental
movement in the twenty-first century.
Our planet, the shared home of billions