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21	Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism Benavente, Gabriel 30 March 2017 (has links) This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but a space where queers can flourish. Just as queer and environmental justice movements are codependent on one another, feminist movements cannot be separate from black and transgender liberation. This thesis will demonstrate how writers, such as Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Janet Mock, help establish a feminism that resists the erasure of black and transgender people. ecocriticism contemporary literature speculative fiction science fiction queer theory feminism english octavia butler janet mock toni morrison audre lorde climate change environmental justice african american activism transgender parable of the talents queer ecology African American Studies American Literature American Politics American Studies Arts and Humanities Continental Philosophy Ecology and Evolutionary Biology English Language and Literature Environmental Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Philosophy Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Religion

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