Climate Girl Effect
Date of Event
10-13-2021
Description
Carolyn Cunningham & Heather Crandall discuss their recent book: Fridays, Flint, and Fire: The Climate Girl Effect that explores girls’ technofeminist activism in the climate justice movement. This activism takes the form of apps and video games, letters, protest, funktivism, launching non-profits, and lawsuits. In the current moment, girl activists challenge traditional gender boundaries as they fight for a livable future.
Cunningham and Crandall have been researching, publishing, teaching, and presenting together for years on topics of gender, technology, and social media activism. They have a chapter in the book, Social Media for Social Justice: Cyberfeminism in the Digital Village, they won a top paper award for their paper on hashtag activism that later became a journal article in Explorations in Media Ecology. They both are affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Gonzaga. As educators, Dr. Cunningham and Dr. Crandall designed and taught a course on Women, Communication and Leadership that turned into their edited collection, Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap (2017).
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Sponsored By
Gonzaga University Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment
Recommended Citation
Cunningham, Carolyn M. and Crandall, Heather, "Climate Girl Effect" (2021). Climate, Water, and the Environment Events. 13.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/climateevents/13
Video Transcript
Climate_Climate Girl Effect_Event Details.pdf (165 kB)
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