The great bell hooks said the function of art is to do more than tell it like it is, it is to imagine what is possible. The stories EJ stories shared here bear witness to the greatest EJ issues of our time, and integrate historical evidence, community engaged principles, multiple forms of data, and diverse testimony to imagine meaningful (and sometimes exhilarating!) pathways toward environmental justice.
Our stories come in all different mediums--from blogs written by Stanford students from frontline communities, to podcasts, informational websites, art pieces, screenplays, op-eds, editorials, feature magazine articles, and informational websites.
Together they offer a tapestry of possibility and a powerful testament to the power of storytelling to make visible knowledges and experiences that have been erased; to intervene in narratives that perpetuate harm; and to create and build environmentally just futures. They hold in both content and form the wide range of lived experiences of environmental injustice, and the community engaged scholarship that both shapes and reflects how we think about EJ.
At our annual EJ Conference, student biologist, writer and science communicator Tanvi Dutta Gupta highlighted the importance of expanding space in the academy to include EJ and the arts, as a key approach to respectful engagement with those recovering from or undergoing the lived experience of oppression: “What does it mean to be a person experiencing these things in a way that dominant modes of objectivity do not allow for? [This is] where art is making the deep harms visible in ways that cannot be expressed in speech.”
If you would like to contribute to our EJ Storytelling efforts, please contact Emily Polk @ [email protected]
Also see: Polk, E, Diver, S. 2020. Situating the Scientist: Creating Inclusive Science Communication Through Equity Framing and Environmental Justice. Frontiers in Communication. 5:6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00006.
Our stories come in all different mediums--from blogs written by Stanford students from frontline communities, to podcasts, informational websites, art pieces, screenplays, op-eds, editorials, feature magazine articles, and informational websites.
Together they offer a tapestry of possibility and a powerful testament to the power of storytelling to make visible knowledges and experiences that have been erased; to intervene in narratives that perpetuate harm; and to create and build environmentally just futures. They hold in both content and form the wide range of lived experiences of environmental injustice, and the community engaged scholarship that both shapes and reflects how we think about EJ.
At our annual EJ Conference, student biologist, writer and science communicator Tanvi Dutta Gupta highlighted the importance of expanding space in the academy to include EJ and the arts, as a key approach to respectful engagement with those recovering from or undergoing the lived experience of oppression: “What does it mean to be a person experiencing these things in a way that dominant modes of objectivity do not allow for? [This is] where art is making the deep harms visible in ways that cannot be expressed in speech.”
If you would like to contribute to our EJ Storytelling efforts, please contact Emily Polk @ [email protected]
Also see: Polk, E, Diver, S. 2020. Situating the Scientist: Creating Inclusive Science Communication Through Equity Framing and Environmental Justice. Frontiers in Communication. 5:6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00006.