2025 IGSF Public Lecture with Dr. Ingrid Waldron
"Women on the Frontlines: The Fight Against Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities"
Indigenous and Black women in Canada are disproportionately affected by environmental racism and other forms of violence rooted in a legacy of colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. Gender, race, class, and other social identities render Indigenous and Black women more vulnerable to a web of inequalities that inflict violence on their bodies, lands, and communities, including environmental racism. In response, these women have been leading grassroots environmental justice movements for decades to challenge the legal, political, and corporate agendas condoning the presence of poisons in their communities. In this lecture, Dr. Ingrid Waldron examines the sociopolitical factors that expose these women to the disproportionate social, ecological, and health impacts of environmental racism in their communities. Dr. Waldron will also attend to the transformative human agency of these women by illuminating their legacy of mobilizing and activism against environmental racism.
