February 24, 2023 at 10:00am
A recent panel professors and a DEI officer describing how to apply an LGBTQ-centered approach to ecology to “environmental and conservation work.”
The “Queer Ecologies Panel” is one of the latest instances of woke ideology in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), a phenomenon that Campus Reform has documented in , , , and other STEM fields.
One panelist that urban parks, such as Central Park, can be “gendered, racialized, and organized [by] heterosexual, capitalist norms,” according to a recording of the event released by the Forest Stewards Guild on Feb. 2.
The Forest Stewards Guild’s describes the organization as one that “engages in education, training, policy analysis, research, and advocacy” for “forest conservation and management.”
Panelists included professors of 91ɫ and of . The panel also featured a diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and justice from , which addresses “climate change, unnecessary dams, pollution, floods, and outdated policies.”
Sandilands queer ecology, saying that it “disrupt[s] heterosexist and cisnormative understandings of sex and nature” and considers “environmental practices and politics from the perspective of LGBTQ2SLQIA individuals.”
Di Chiro that queer ecology “is about having access to a powerful, critical lens, or a mind-opening framework through which we can better understand our relationships to one another.”
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