Jun
19
11:00pm
Camille T. Dungy - Soil: A Black Mother's Garden
By solidstatedc
Join us for an intimate virtual conversation with Camille Dungey, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden hosted by Black Girl Environmentalist, an intergenerational supportive community dedicated to empowering Black girls, women and non-binary people across environmental disciplines.
About Soil:
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens.
In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it.
Definitive and singular, Soil functions at the nexus of nature writing, environmental justice, and prose to encourage you to recognize the relationship between the peoples of the African diaspora and the land on which they live, and to understand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home.
About Camille T. Dungy:
She is the author of the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has edited three anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Her honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an and an American Book Award. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.
About her conversation partner:
Arielle V. King is an environmental educator passionate about making environmentalism and law inclusive and accessible to all people. She currently leads programming at Black Girl Environmentalist. Arielle’s work is focused on storytelling and amplifying the voices, work, and legacies of those traditionally overlooked in mainstream environmentalism. She has a background in environmental racism analysis, developing anti-racism policies for municipalities and school districts, political ecology, civil rights law, and centering community input in environmental governance. Arielle was the Season 1 host of The Joy Report, a podcast dedicated to sharing positive, intersectional climate solutions through the lens of environmental justice. Arielle has earned a BA in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, a Master’s in Environmental Law and Policy, and a Juris Doctor focused on environmental justice and civil rights law.
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