Featuring Our Guest Adwoa Addae
Adwoa Addae is a Jamaican-born multidisciplinary performance artist, activist/community organizer, writer, and free-being. As a Black Trans, gender-bending Immigrant, their work explores the pathways through which Afro-Diasporic peoples become channels for the Earth and Spirit realms to defy constructs of gender and heal from environmental/climate collapse. They aim to craft connections between the mysterious nature of a climate apocalyptic world and the ways in which Black Trans/Non-Binary people create identity and futures within the unknown, essentially embracing death of the “old culture of being” while simultaneously crafting endless imagination of what we have the ability to become. They seek to wield their body to create imagery and poetry that probes people into emotionality that questions how our ruptured relationship to the Earth in the West is a barrier to our collective healing and ancestral communication. Publications and features include Wakanda Dream Lab: Black Freedom Beyond Borders Anthology, Teen Vogue, the New York Times, Grist.org, and Ottar Magazine (of Sweden). They have also performed at conferences, universities, and art festivals around the world including the United Nations Climate Negotiations.
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Episode Resources and Further Reading
Environmental Racism
- Racism is Killing the planet by Hop Hopkins
- The True Cost of Environmental Racism
- Environmental Justice
Flint, Michigan
- Flint Water Crisis: 7 things to know
- Description of “Flint” upcoming doc with trailer
- Michigan civil rights report
- “…was race a factor in the Flint Water Crisis?” Our answer is an unreserved and undeniable — “yes”.
- “If, without racist intent, a systemic problem repeatedly produces different results based on people’s skin color, how long does it take before leaving the system in place is itself racism?”
Cancer Alley
- First pollution, now coronavirus: Black parish in Louisiana deals with ‘a double whammy’ of death
- Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse
- Cancer Alley Residents Decry ‘Environmental Racism’ in Louisiana
Cockpit country/Bauxite/Maroon community:
- Noranda: We all want to protect Cockpit Country
- Esther Figueroa | Cockpit Country still under threat from bauxite mining | In Focus | Jamaica Gleaner
- Cockpit Country Climate Justice Issue
Additional Reading
- Institute of Queer Ecology
- “The Mushroom at the end of the world” – by Anna Tsing
- Mmabatho Motsamai – Botswana Climate/Gender Activist