Hey, fam, it's Amara.

Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

April 22nd was Earth Day, but climate change and environmental injustice are all-year-round issues.

Even issues, maybe stretching across the decades.

And you might be wondering what do climate change and trans rights have to do with each other.

The truth is that they are undeniably linked in so many ways.

First off, the rigidity in thinking about gender, you know,

that gender can't change and it's fixed and it'll always remain constant, is often applied

to the issue of climate change by opponents of addressing the climate crisis who believe

that the climate is stable and there is nothing that anyone can do to ever

change it. But it's also the case that there are so many trans people who are on the front

lines of climate justice, meaning that the intersections are both not only ideological,

but also personal. Moreover, personally for me, I think that there's nothing

more trans than nature, but hey, that's just me speaking for myself. So I wanted to explore

all of these social and ecological intersections with two people working to protect our planet.

First, I'm joined by educator and storyteller, Vanessa Raditz,

who unpacks the connections between the fight for environmental justice and transliberation.

All of these different ways in which our communities are already transforming and transfiguring

grief into action is so necessary in order to combat the eco grief that so many young people

are experiencing.

Next, I'll chat with Arapahoe organizer, Big Wind Carpenter, about their experience protesting

pipelines and mobilizing their community against

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