Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 4:45pm
Visual Culture Colloquium (VCC)
Visualizing Black Feminist Ecologies
Dr. Chelsea Frazier
Zoom Lecture
By engaging visual culture, Dr. Chelsea Frazier articulates political ecologies that move beyond the limited correctives made available through the conventions of Western theories and formal politics. She further argues that Black-fem subjects disrupt environmental studies frameworks informed by coloniality. These disruptions allow Black feminism(s) to actively construct alternative conceptions of ecological ethics within our present world and beyond it.
Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier is a scholar working at the intersection of Black feminist literature and theory and the environmental humanities. She is currently at work on her first book manuscript—an ecocritical study of contemporary Black women artists, writers, and activists. In her analyses, she probes the ways that dominant theoretical and disciplinary frameworks in environmental studies obscure the legibility of what she calls a Black feminist ecoethic as it manifests in Black women’s environmental writing, visual art, and activism across the African diaspora.
Photo by Lace-Sangofunmiso
