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DESCRIPTION:Join a panel conversation that explores links between eco-fascism, 
 right-leaning \nclimate anxiety, the Buffalo NY shootings, and Roe v. 
 Wade.\n\nDate and time: Fri, June 10, 2022 @ 4 PM - 6 PM PT (7 PM – 9 PM 
 ET)\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-climate-anxiety-leans-right-eco-fascism-buffalo-and-roe-tickets-353919311187\n\n\nWithin 
 the last month, two era-defining events took place in the United States. 
 \n\nFirst, the Supreme Court signaled its intent to dramatically cut 
 women's reproductive freedom.Second, a white supremacist murdered 10 Black 
 people in Buffalo, New York, drawing on racist "replacement theory" and 
 eco-fascist ideas regarding immigrants. \n\nThese events are devastating in 
 their own right, but they also have profound climate and environmental 
 justice implications. As research tells us, climate change impacts women 
 more than men and gender and reproductive inequities make it much harder 
 for societies to adapt to climate change collectively and democratically. 
 \n\nToo, because of environmental racism, the Tops grocery store in Buffalo 
 was located in a food desert; it was therefore a key community gathering 
 spot and an easy target for a violent right winger who experienced, among 
 other things, white climate anxiety. \n\nThese are dangerous 
 trends.\n\nJoin us for a panel conversation and Q & A discussion that 
 explores the links between these issues, their connection to the climate 
 crisis and the psychological underpinnings that drive these 
 trends.\n\nSpeakers:\n\n--Prof. Jade S. Sasser, Department of Gender & 
 Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside, CA \n& author,  "On Infertile Ground: 
 Population Control and Women’s Rights in \nthe Era of Climate 
 Change"\n\n--Prof. Sarah Jaquette Ray, Chair of Environmental Studies, Cal 
 Poly Humboldt, CA \n& author, "A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to 
 Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet"\n\n--Prof. Betsy Hartmann, Development 
 Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA \n& author "Reproductive Rights 
 and Wrongs"\n\n--Dr Blanche Verlie, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the 
 Sydney Environment Institute, Australia\n\nModerator: Rebecca Weston, LCSW 
 and JD, Co-President of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North 
 America\n\n\nBIOS:\n\nBetsy Hartmann is professor emerita of Development 
 Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, USA. She is the author of 
 "Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control 
 and The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness", as 
 well as two novels about the Far Right. Her research, writing, and advocacy 
 focus on the political nexus between population, environment, climate, 
 migration and security concerns, including the role of ecofascism. Betsy 
 Hartmann\n\nSarah Jaquette Ray is Chair and Professor of Environmental 
 Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt. She researches and teaches on climate 
 justice, the environmental humanities, and climate emotions. Her recent 
 book, "A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming 
 Planet", explores the role of emotions in climate justice activism. She is 
 co-editing an edited collection for educators called "An Existential 
 Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators", and has developed a workshop to 
 help educators bring the science of emotions into environmental education, 
 called the Climate Wisdom Lab. She speaks extensively on climate justice 
 and emotions, and has written for the LA Times, The Scientific American, 
 The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Zocalo Public Square, and other 
 venues.\n\nJade S. Sasser, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department 
 of Gender & Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. Her work explores the 
 intersectional impacts of climate change on women’s bodies, health, 
 rights, and reproductive justice. Her award-winning book, "On Infertile 
 Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate 
 Change", was published in 2018 by NYU Press. Sasser is currently 
 researching the role of race in climate change-related emotions and mental 
 health impacts, as well as how it shapes the desire to have children.\n\nDr 
 Blanche Verlie, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Environment 
 Institute. Blanche is an uninvited settler living on stolen Gadigal Country 
 in Sydney Australia. Her work investigates how people understand, 
 experience and respond to climate change, with a focus on young people, 
 climate anxiety, and justice. You can find her book Learning to Live with 
 Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation available as a free e-book 
 here, and find her on Twitter @BlancheVerlie\n\nRebecca Weston, LCSW and JD 
 lives in the metro-New York area and is a practicing clinician and 
 Co-President of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. In this 
 capacity, Rebecca organizes and provides support for climate aware mental 
 health clinicians. She speaks frequently about the mental health impacts of 
 the climate crisis, the varied ways in which climate mental issues are 
 interwoven with systems of inequity, the psychological underpinnings of 
 climate denial and the need to open compassionate space for people to 
 engage their emotions and step forward into action.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/06/05/18850237.php
SUMMARY:When Climate Anxiety Leans Right: Eco-Fascism, Buffalo NY and Roe
LOCATION:Online event for free
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/06/05/18850237.php
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