Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism
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- 2017-03-30
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This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but a space where queers can flourish. Just as queer and environmental justice movements are codependent on one another, feminist movements cannot be separate from black and transgender liberation. This thesis will demonstrate how writers, such as Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Janet Mock, help establish a feminism that resists the erasure of black and transgender people.
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Benavente, Gabriel
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- Florida International University Libraries
- Subjects
- Ecocriticism
Contemporary literature
Speculative fiction
Science fiction
Queer theory
Feminism
English
Octavia butler
Janet mock
Toni morrison
Audre lorde
Climate change
Environmental justice
African american
Activism
Transgender
Parable of the talents
Queer ecology
African American Studies
American Literature
American Politics
American Studies
Arts and Humanities
Continental Philosophy
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
English Language and Literature
Environmental Studies
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Feminist Philosophy
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Religion
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- Benavente, Gabriel. Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism. 2017-03-30. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Benavente, Gabriel, (2017-03-30) Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186
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- Benavente, Gabriel. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186>.