Queer/Green collaboration as a radical response to climate crises: Foregrounding the Green Stripe

Emma Foster*, Peter Kerr*

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Abstract

This article has two aims. Firstly, to highlight a general marginalisation of queer and trans voices within the environmental/ecological movement. Secondly, to identify and explore some contemporary efforts to overcome these tensions and forge closer alliances between queer and green politics. Drawing on queer and trans ecology literatures, we highlight the radical potential that closer synergy between the progressive goals and activities of environmentalist and LGBTQIA2+ politics can bring about. Examining the online content of a number of activist organisations and platforms, we highlight some of the ways in which the queering of green politics and the greening of queer politics are being given practical contemporary expression. In doing so, we highlight the space that this type of politics can create for a reimagining of alternative ecological futures and a more progressive political economy based around a transformation of relationships both within human populations and between humans and other-than-human species and ecologies.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)73-91
Number of pages19
JournalGlobal Political Economy
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2024

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