Environmental Communication (Journal) at International Environmental Communication Association (IECA)
“For environmental communication scholars, the explicit environmental dimensions of queer and trans care work are at best marginalized in this journal, and at worst, imagined as simply irrelevant to the aims and mission of this field. What do our students experience when they try to find lifelines in these conversations and discover the absence of queer and trans people in the midst?” — E Cram, https://lnkd.in/gWS7ctUQ Cram’s incredibly generative article points out the glaring absence of work on queer and trans ecologies in our field and offers lifelines for future scholars by calling for an agenda of queer and trans environmentalisms. As they note: “In a culture in which the form of the family encloses and privatizes how we imagine relationality and practices of sustaining life, queer and trans people transform social and familial expulsion into the seeds of mutuality and survival. Our historical struggles are guidebooks for adapting to hostile climates, carving out possibilities for care infrastructures committed to meeting basic needs and honoring our complexities, and in time building our own worlds.” Read more about how queer and trans social worlds reimagine relationality, indispensability, and networks of care in their full article. Free to Read now as part of the “Care” special issue (18.1-2) of Environmental Communication.
