Eco-Feminist and Womanist Activism: Your Story as a Source

How does your story inform your activism? This workshop will explore the ways eco-feminist/womanist praxes center story, song, and cultural knowledge as origins and sources for scholarship, activism, and community organizing. This workshop will have three sections:

1. Story as Source – the presenter will share their own story through poetry and spoken word
2. Story as Craft – how does your story and social location inform what you see and support?
3. Story as Communal Praxis – we will close with time to share our narratives with one another.

Presented by the Dwight Hall Magee Fellowship.  We will provide coffee, tea, and snacks for this convening!

“Beloved, to day you eat…

Today you walk,

today you read, today you paint, my love.” – The Black Maria Aracelis Girmay

Kaley Casenhiser is a first-year candidate for Dual Master’s Degrees from Yale Divinity School and Yale School of the Environment. A liberation theo-ethicist, scholar-activist, performance artist, and chaplain in a time of climate crisis, her work is rooted in womanist-feminist ethics and praxis. Her research specializes in the intersectionalities and interstices of environmental racism, sexual ethics, and land sovereignty, and centers the lived experiences and narratives of women, queer and non-binary persons, and the land itself as sources of moral wisdom. Her work counter-maps hetero-normative, racialized geographies and epistemologies and using CPAR (critical participatory action research) to explore the contours of land justice pathways on church-owned lands through reparations, rematriation, and regeneration. On the weekends, Kaley can be found cantoring for Jazz Eucharist at St. Paul’s & St. James’s Episcopal Church in Wooster Square, baking sourdough bread, rehearsing at the Landscape Lab for “This Place is a Message,” snuggling with her tabby, Ari, or reading poetry, most recently, Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay.