Disrupting the Climate Emergency through Indigiqueer Futurities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The climate emergency poses particular challenges for gender and sexually diverse members of Indigenous communities, rooted both in the historical legacies of colonization and its ongoing forms. To date, there is a dearth of research documenting the climate change experiences of Indigiqueer people. Existing research demonstrates clear pathways between access to the social and Indigenous determinants of health and vulnerability to climatic shifts and extreme weather events of Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities independently of each other. People at the intersection of these identities – those who are both Indigenous and have gender or sexual diverse identities – will inevitably encounter heightened challenges relative to each population. Furthermore, lived experience of climate impacts and saturation in “climate-vulnerability” discourse has prompted Indigenous and LGBTQ+ advocacy and action regarding the particular capabilities they can contribute to climate change science and strategy. However, within both Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities, the unique challenges and potential contributions that Indigiqueer peoples might make to climate adaptation and mitigation strategies – and more broadly to Indigenous futurities and planetary well-being – are vastly under-researched and overlooked. Yet many Indigiqueer peoples are actually on the frontlines of climate justice movements, embodying unique cultural-ecological resurgent agencies that arise from intersecting identities and contributing to the epistemic diversity (multiple ways of knowing) of queer climate justice. Accordingly, this commentary by two Indigiqueer scholar-practitioners and one queer racialized scholar argues that Indigiqueer peoples have unique agencies with which to respond to the climate emergency. Just as significantly, we argue that these agencies, which are sometimes overlooked within Indigenous environmental justice frameworks, have broader relevance for the cultural-ecological restoration work which is so urgently needed for planetary health and wellbeing today.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.050 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".