In A Flash Episode 3- Pleasure and Justice: A conversation with Moira Williams

What does environmental justice look like to you? Clean drinking water for all? An end to the disproportionate exposure of poor and multiply marginalized people to harmful waste and resource extraction? Guest moira williams proposes all that and a day at the beach.

 

Guest: Moira Williams

Host: Jessica Stokes

Audio Producer: Taylor Kaigler

Transcript by: Taylor Kaigler

Music: Hammond by Waiting for Sound

 

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Jessica:

 This is our third episode and today we're joined by Moira Williams. They're a disabled Indigenous artist, cross disability, cultural activist, and access doula co-creating and weaving disability justice together with crip celebratory resistance and environmental justice.

 

Moira:

Oftentimes people think environmental justice is exactly that, about equitable drinking water, access to equitable drinking water, clean drinking water and and climate change is, you know, primary thought too with environmental justice. Also, part of what I see as environmental justice is everybody's ability, supported ability to get to places that are in the environment for pleasure and joy, environmental unity, essentially a sacredness of the earth.

 

Moira:

And for me, that's about the body, mind, spirit, connection, that we're a wholeness and that we come from Earth. I'm made from the Earth. Everybody's made from the Earth. Everything we see is made from the Earth and the respect of our culture and language and ancient knowledge is around that.

 

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