Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Author: 
Valerie Ann Johnson, Mott

Writing this essay has been like falling down Alice's proverbial rabbit hole into Wonderland. The more I reflect on feminist disability
studies and environmental justice, the more connections between the two I find. And the more connections I find, the more complexity there seems to be between these two areas. To paraphrase Alice, it gets curiouser and curiouser. Still, it is a
complexity worth exploring. This essay represents an initial venture into what I believe to be a fruitful area of scholarship and activism. This essay brings ideas from several social justice perspectives together in order to connect environmental justice and feminist disability studies in a way that provides a coherent framework needed to address activist work for women and girls.

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Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice