“I created Queer Brown Vegan because my queerness has been something that I really have often hidden away in environmental research”, says Isaias Hernandez, an environmental educator, explaining how male, pale and stale climate spaces gatekeep the climate movement – but now – thanks to Isaias and others like them – that’s changing.
Tune in to hear their experiences of reshaping the professional and digital creative climate space to be something entirely more inclusive, and engaging.
Enjoyed this quickie? Why not listen to Isaias’s full episode on Climate Curious – Why Climate Has a Youthwashing Problem: https://tedxlondon.com/podcast/climate-curious-why-climate-has-a-youthwashing-problem/
About the author
Maryam is the Director and Curator of TEDxLondonWomen and TEDxLondon, co-host of ‘Climate Curious’ podcast and has been working on TEDx events since 2011. The world is full of fascinating ideas, knowledge and theories, but they are too often complex, abstract or hidden away. Maryam wants to give these ideas the chance to change the world. Through her company, X Equals, she works with organisations and individuals to give life to their ideas through storytelling, pitch coaching and events design and curation. Maryam is also a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford.
