GeoLog

Pride Month

Allyship is a choice: A letter from small town Brazil to the world on how my allyship is action

June 17, 2026
Allyship is a choice: A letter from small town Brazil to the world on how my allyship is action
Photo by Norbu GYACHUNG. Source: Unsplash

I thought a lot about how to write this piece because it is not easy to think of myself as an ally to my queer friends. This is only because it is, to me, completely unfathomable that we, in this century, in 2026, still need to be allies. Honestly, there is convenience in moving on with our lives, turning a blind eye to injustice, and even questioning the mere existence of campaigns like the pride ...[Read More]

Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all

June 12, 2026
Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all
Photo by Nik. Source: Unsplash

Pride month arrives this year against a backdrop of institutional irony. In the United States, federal research funding has been thoroughly weaponised and forced a massive scientific brain drain across the Atlantic. In Europe, a multi-million-euro effort to capture that exiled talent is underway, even as Europe’s own domestic politics fracture along the exact same ideological fault lines. Fo ...[Read More]

Queer Quarterly: LGBTQIA+ Inclusion during fieldwork

and June 13, 2025
Queer Quarterly: LGBTQIA+ Inclusion during fieldwork
Queer Quarterly logo, designed by Lea Pennac

It’s pride month and we are delighted to feature a post on queer inclusion in fieldwork written by members of EGU’s pride group. Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, an LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community at EGU. This quarterly post is based on the EGU Webinar Uneven Ground 2 on improving fieldwork accessibility ...[Read More]