Decolonizing Environmentalism (Rewind) | Wanjiku "Wawa" Gatheru

ECO CHIC

Cloud10

Natural Sciences, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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182: We are rewinding to one of my favorite guests ever! We’re joined by Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, a brilliant environmental justice scholar passionate about empowering BIPOC communities! Wawa is a recent alumnus of the University of Connecticut, and a Rhodes scholar attending Oxford continuing her intersectional environmental studies. She has had two recently published pieces shake the Internet: her piece in Vice titled “It’s Time for Environmental Studies to Own Up to Erasing Black People,” and in Glamour, “Want to be an Environmentalist? Start with Antiracism.” Our conversation today covers a lot of ground, primarily stemming from this ideal of white environmentalism: we discuss racism + social justice in the conservation movement, and also in how BIPOC communities experience outdoor recreation; the whitewashing of environmental studies and histories; unpaid internships + tokenism, especially when it comes to making big nature-focused organizations into more diversity. Wawa speaks honestly about generational trauma and violence against Black folx, and criminalization still present today; this leads us to the topic of accessibility to the outdoors for non-white students. Thanks to our sponsors! Storyworth.co/ECOCHIC Wren.co/ECOCHIC HelloFresh.com/ECOCHIC16 Find me on: Instagram @ecochicpodcast + @lauraediez, on Facebook, Twitter, and now TikTok. Audio Player Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.9	Welcome back to Eco Chic.
1:05.5	Today we are listening to a Rewind episode.
1:08.2	One of my very favorites, we're talking about racism and conservation,
1:11.8	environmental justice, and the whitewashing that exists in that space, both academically
1:16.5	and in practice. We are speaking with a great friend of mine in this space. Wawa,
1:22.5	Wanchukku Gatheroo. She is such a brilliant voice in the space, and it is such a treat to get to learn from her,
1:28.9	both when this episode came out about two and a half years ago, 118, and I've continued to
1:33.8	learn from her online and just really admired her so, so much.
1:37.2	She is currently at Oxford, getting a graduate degree.
1:40.4	She is a Rhodes Scholar.
1:41.7	She attended the University of Connecticut and really just such a
1:45.8	powerful, thoughtful voice in the space of intersectional environmentalism. So I'm really excited
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