Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Aileen Angsutorn Lees and teaches us How the language and ideals of white environmentalism reinforce fascist narratives.

Aileen (she/her) is a writer, photographer and activist based in Scotland. Passionate about dismantling narratives of dominating and extracting nature, she set up the project Decolonising The Outdoors and organises community events. She can be found on Instagram at @aileenang_

Do:

• Support intersectional environmental organisations lobbying government and industry for climate justice, such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace
• Find out more about Pesticide Action Network UK

Read:

• Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
• How Have the Forests of “Israel” Swallowed Our Unpopulated Land?
• Beyond the War on Invasive Species by Tao Orion
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plantsby Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Other shado articles on decolonisation, climate justice, indigenous movements and Palestine

Listen:

• shado-lite’s podcast episode on settler colonialism in historic Palestine
• The Botanical Mind podcast episode on the coloniality of planting

Watch:

• Foragers (2022), a Palestinian documentary which interrogates settler colonial power and narratives of conservation

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and describes his Reflections on motherhood as a revered singular category with no equal

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He analyses the cultural and socio-political dimensions of various subjects, from mainstream pop-culture, politics, art to academic debates.

What can you do?

• Read What Gender is Motherhood by by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
• Read The Invention of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
• Read Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass by Lorelle D. Semley
• Watch Journey of an African Colony on Youtube
• Listen to the Reconceptualising Rotimi Fani-Kayode podcast by queer/disrupt

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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Simmone Ahiaku and speaks On drill as a periscope with Adèle Oliver, author of Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill.

Simmone is a climate justice campaigner, writer and educator who has contributed to environmental, social and cultural work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and direct action campaigns. She currently uses facilitated workshops to explore climate colonialism and examples of climate resistance and movements from the past and present day. Simmone is an astrology enthusiast - she's an aries sun, moon and Scorpio rising. Simmone loves music, hates capitalism and likes looking at the bright side of things!

What can you do?

Simmone has curated an amazing list of resources here so please head over to the online article, and scroll down to the What can you do? section to check that out. It recommendations for getting into drill music, podcasts, authors, artists, pieces of writing, and organisations you can follow.

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