This screening will be on Thursday, November 14th at 5pm in Burke Auditorium. A short discussion will follow the documentary. There will be dinner provided. Please RVSP here: https://forms.gle/wEKXjVNb7LQnkXFJA
This screening is intended to inform about the nexus between health, LGBTQ issues, and climate change. Climate change is already urgent around the world. Solutions to climate change and public health issues cannot be comprehensive or useful when leaving out sexuality, gender identity, and environmental justice.
“FIRE & FLOOD: QUEER RESILIENCE IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE tells the story of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the fires in Santa Rosa, California, two-near simultaneous climate-related disasters in the fall of 2017, through the voices of LGBTQ people who lived through them and were part of the community response. The film explores the vulnerability of LGBTQ communities to climate disasters and also lifts up queer and trans strategies for resilience, transition, and survival.
“Fire and Flood” was piloted at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference in January, 2018, with positive feedback on the need for these stories in the LGBTQ movement.”
About the Filmmaker:
Vanessa Raditz is an environmental health researcher, youth educator, and culture-shifter dedicated to community healing, opening access to land and resources, and fostering a thriving local economy based on human and ecological resilience. Vanessa received their Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley, and currently studies in the Geography PhD program at University of Georgia. Vanessa is part of the founding collective of the Queer Ecojustice Project, educating and organizing at the intersection of ecological justice and queer liberation. The “Fire and Flood” film project is rooted in Vanessa’s lived experience of the 2017 fires in Northern California.
If you would like more information or would like to donate to the final creation of the documentary visit here: https://www.queerecoproject.org/firefloodfilm