FRANCES ROBERTS-GREGORY

“There’s so much creativity in brokeness. Brokeness will have you making it work.”
- Issa Rae

“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”
– Iyanla Vanzant

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde

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What could a fossil-free(ish) future look like
for the Louisiana Gulf Coast?

Another Gulf Is Possible from Jayeesha Dutta on Vimeo.

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Just Transition to a Feminist Green New Deal

1/28/2021

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Who will lead the "just transition" to
a Feminist Green New Deal?

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Louisiana Environmental and Climate Justice

1/27/2021

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2019 Petrochemical Landscape along
the Mississippi River

Abolitionist Ecologies
My research explores environmental, energy, and climate justice using critical race and feminist political ecology lenses. Broadly speaking, I am interested in race, place, gender, justice, and nature. My auto-ethnographic doctoral work titled “Post-Apocalyptic Environmental Politics: Women of Color, Climate Justice and State-Corporate Crime in Louisiana” investigates how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women navigate contradictory relationships with energy and petrochemical industries, resist environmental racism, and advocate for energy and climate solutions.

I have conducted over two years’ worth of participant observation with various community-based organizations and conducted in-depth ecowomanist oral histories (2-5 hours each) with over 50 women of color in Gulf Coast Louisiana. My scholarship will ultimately help democratize environmental governance, diversify leadership within environmental policy and planning, and innovate feminist mixed methods in environmental sociology, geography, and feminist anthropology.

2019 March for Death Alley
along Burton Lane

2019 NAACP Environmental Justice Workshop at Southern University in Baton Rouge

2019 World Forum on Climate Justice in Glasgow, Scotland

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Musings of a
Black N'Green PhD

Emotional Resiliency

“There’s so much creativity in brokeness. Brokeness will have you making it work.”
- Issa Rae

“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”
– Iyanla Vanzant

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde

Fossil Free-ish Future

What could a fossil-free(ish) future look like
for the Louisiana Gulf Coast?

Just Transition to a Feminist Green New Deal

Inspiration

What Came Before

Louisiana Environmental and Climate Justice

Musings of a ​Black N'Green PhD

Emotional Resiliency

“There’s so much creativity in brokeness. Brokeness will have you making it work.”- Issa Rae

“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”​– Iyanla Vanzant

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde

Fossil Free-ish Future

What could a fossil-free(ish) future look like ​ for the Louisiana Gulf Coast?

Just Transition to a ​Feminist Green New Deal

Inspiration

What Came Before

Louisiana Environmental and Climate Justice

Musings of a
Black N'Green PhD

“There’s so much creativity in brokeness. Brokeness will have you making it work.”
- Issa Rae

“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”
– Iyanla Vanzant

What could a fossil-free(ish) future look like
for the Louisiana Gulf Coast?

Just Transition to a Feminist Green New Deal