ASCP Spring 2024 Zoom Book Club Sign-Up
Join the academic sub-committee of the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program (ASCP) as they host the eighth Environmental Justice Zoom Book Club (EJZBC). We've selected Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists, edited by Leah Penniman. Penniman is the cofound of Soul Fire Farm and an author (Farming While Black) interviews 16 Black environmentalists and assembles an "inspiring compendium" that covers a range of environmental justice topics ("acidifying oceans, environmental racism, and the unsustainable consumption of nonrenewable resources, while also touching on more positive considerations of the beauty of the natural world and what it means to live in “right relationship” with the Earth," per Publisher's Weekly). Read more about Black Earth Wisdom: https://blackearthwisdom.org/

As in our 7 prior book clubs, we will strive to create a dialogic space of deep listening. We will recognize that participants are likely affected in different ways and with different intensities, by environmental racism; and that participants are likely to have different access to, and experience with, legacies of racism and injustice. We will prioritize in each session conversations about what each of us might do next, individually and collectively, to be responsive to environmental racism and creative toward environmental justice.

Our sessions are scheduled for Mondays from 6:15-7:30pm on following dates/times (we will email a Zoom link and password within 3 days of session 1 to all who complete the form below):

2.12: Opening, Spirit
2.26: Wilds, Soil
3.11: Defense, Witness
3.25: Closing

Questions? Thoughts? Email Christina Foust (Professor of Communication Studies at MSU-Denver) at cfoust2@msudenver.edu 


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