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Vanessa Raditz

Vanessa Raditz is a multi-disciplinary scholar, educator, and documentarian, whose work focuses on the nexus of social and ecological justice. They have ten years of experience of community organizing and advocacy in queer ecojustice, including an expertise in disaster equity for LGBTQ+ communities. Vanessa has a Masters of Arts in Geography, a Masters of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences, a Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies, and they are in the final stages of their PhD in Educational Theory and Practice.

Taking Pride in our planet: Protecting oceans for queer & trans Survival

June 29, 2026
Taking Pride in our planet: Protecting oceans for queer & trans Survival
Queer Disaster Risk Map. Source: StoryMapping Queer Climate Justice

In Spring of 2025, just as I was preparing to release the Queer Climate Justice StoryMap I had been building for two years, I received a difficult email from my lead community collaborator, an LGBTQ+ foundation, describing the devastating legal and financial situation the newly inaugurated Trump administration had put them in. We decided to set the project to private to protect the queer and trans ...[Read More]