Our community often turns to art in our efforts to call out and challenge environmental racism.
This week, we are highlighting a poetic reflection on environmental injustice by Fiona Rae Brown and Nia McAllister called “Rooted (In)Justice”, from the first issue of Radicle magazine.
Imagined as seemingly devoid of color, the invention of “the environment” as an untouched, unpopulated expanse of wilderness negates history, erases Indigenous narratives, and establishes access to nature as a privilege. This narrow visioning of the outdoors as exclusive is as dangerous as it is strategic. Despite the complex legacies of communities of color tending to and stewarding the land both forcibly and freely, (green) spaces remain racialized. We are living in a landscape of inequity.
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