How can we build futures that are not only environmentally sustainable, but also deeply just and transformative?
Disabled and queer communities have long been resisting exclusion, disrupting dominant systems, and reclaiming space in multiple ways and forms. Yet, their transformative knowledge and struggles are often left out of environmental research, action, and policy.
The project “Whose sustainability? Understanding and Redefining Just Sustainability Transformations through Disability and Queer Perspectives” (WEIRD) centers disability and queer knowledges to challenge ableist and cis-heteronormative assumptions in environmental research, action, and policy. By working alongside grassroots initiatives and activist communities as well as multiple academic disciplines, we explore how people with disabilities and queer people create transformative practices based on values such as reciprocity, care, and justice for sustainable futures.