Amplifier Program > Queer Eco Project

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Queer Eco Project aids and organizes, land-based healing, and cultivating spaces of queer joy

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About the organization

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Mission
The Eco Queer Project aims to create a thriving community where queer individuals can live sustainably and contribute to ecological justice.

This is done by fostering a space for education, advocacy, and collective action to address the interconnected issues of climate change, environmental degradation, and queer oppression.

Vision
The Queer Eco Project envisions a world where queer people are empowered to lead sustainable lifestyles and are recognized as essential contributors to environmental solutions.


Community Programs

#Queers4ClimateJustice
Mobilizing and celebrating LGBTQ+ communities, with a focus on amplifying the needs of marginalized trans, queer, and Two-Spirit individuals.

The Rhizomatic Project
The initiative explores the connections between queer and environmental movements through interviews on the rise of the Eco-Queer movement

Fire & Flood Film
A documentary sharing
stories of queer and trans communities affected
by natural disasters like California's wildfires and Hurricane Maria

Unlawful Poetics
A grassroots project transforming hateful legislation by inviting activists, artists, and everyday people to erase repressive language and reveal liberatory narratives

Can’t Stop Change
Climate storytelling and interviews from Florida’s frontlines, featuring LGBTQ2S+ artists, organizers, and educators, woven into an intersectional climate justice narrative.

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Meet the Founders

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Deseree Fontenot (she/her/they/them)
Founder

Deseree Fontenot is a Black queer land steward, educator, and organizer committed to ecological justice and community-based land reclamation.

Deseree grew up in Louisiana and Los Angeles, beginning her movement-building journey as a student organizer for queer and trans liberation. After nearly a decade in the LGBTQ movement, she transitioned to land-based work and co-founded the Queer Eco-Justice Project with Vanessa in 2016, focusing on ecological justice and queer liberation.

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Vanessa Raditz (they/them)
Founder

Vanessa Raditz is a queer biocultural geographer, educator, and storyteller focused on community healing, access to land and resources, and building an ecologically resilient local economy.

Vanessa co-founded the Queer Ecojustice Project in Spring 2016, focusing on ecological justice and queer liberation. Now, as the director of the documentary Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change, they explore queer resilience to climate change, drawing from their experience of the 2017 Tubbs Fire and collaborating with queer and trans organizers in Northern California and Puerto Rico.


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