Back during Pride Month I led a special hike to celebrate diversity in conservation at my job. One of the projects I did with my adult class was have everyone take photos during the short hike, challenging them to try to get all the different colors of the rainbow so that we could create a rainbow using their photos.
Later after the class, I assembled a combination of photos I took and the participants' who shared photos. As you can probably see, some colors are much harder to find during a Pacific Northwest Summer than others, particularly blue which I was lucky to spot tiny blue flowers near the pond.
Did you spot the only lifeform in the photo? I couldn't resist including a yellow bee as bees are one of my favorite living creatures.
At the end of the hike, I also passed out a brochure I had made about various Queer Environmental Leaders who have contributed to the environmental movement overall, science, or environmental justice. As a queer environmental scientist and educator myself, I have always been drawn to the diversity in nature and how that is reflected back in our human communities, as we are a part of nature.
Many of the people in the brochure below have blogs, books, social medias, scientific papers, or organizations where people can learn about the work they have done and that is why I chose them to be highlighted. There are many more passionate, brilliant Queer Environmental Leaders for us to learn from.
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