Barnard College’s “Divest Barnard,” part of “the divestment movement spreading across college campus nationwide,” has now been joined by the school’s South Asian Feminism(s) Alliance (SAFA) — because “marginalized groups” suffer most from global warm, er, climate change.
“The goal of the partnership between Divest Barnard and SAFA is to expand the conversation to include a more diverse range of perspectives, and will put more pressure on administrators to choose to divest,” reports the Columbia Daily Spectator.
“The modern environmental movement has shifted from being this, like, nature-centric, don’t-let-the-ice-caps-melt-because-we-love-polar-bears narrative to a more, the earth will continue [narrative]; it’s the humans that won’t continue,” Divest Barnard co-founder Evelyn Mayo said.
“And, more importantly, it’s the humans that are in low incomes, like women.”
You mean the women whose choices — along with many other “non-oppression” related variables — are the cause of their low(er) incomes?
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Divest Barnard is hoping to work with more groups beyond SAFA to expand the conversation, including Lucha and the Native American Council to frame the dialogue around identities most affected by climate change, including women, people of color, and people of lower socioeconomic status, according to co-founders Mayo and Helen Cane, BC ’17.
Divest Barnard and SAFA will continue their partnership with a screening of the documentary “This Changes Everything,” directed by Avi Lewis and based on the book by Naomi Klein, followed by a question-and-answer session later this semester.
The group also plans to lead a workshop with Lucha to show how effective actions can be taken within a community to understand how climate change looks and affects politically.
“Climate change affects people in so many different ways, and the ways in which it affects people are heightened or exaggerated based on their other identities,” Cane said.
“Our focus is climate justice,” Mayo added. “Our work hopefully reflects that it’s justice for people within the context of climate change.”
Cane added, “All of our identities come into play in every type of oppression that we experience, and so you can’t separate the effects of climate change from the effects of all other types of oppression.”
Wow. There may be no better example of modern academy-speak than that.
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