Accountability
INCLUSIVITY
This project is an inclusive space. All members of the LGBTQIA+ community are welcome and will be respected with appropriate pronoun use.
ANTI-RACISM AND STRATEGIC PRESENTISM
The project aims to achieve an honest portrait of women's interactions with landscape and nature; one which contributes to a better future. This is not possible without the acknowledgement that, overwhelmingly, the leading narratives of 18th, 19th, 20th, and now, 21st century femme environmentalist figures belong to white figures. Overwhelmingly, their interactions with nature have worked to improve white privilege in those environs, and so, contributed to the exclusion of BIPOC from doing so in white-founded circles of environmental stewardship. This project will root its breadth of work in historic fact, analysis, and commits to the presentation of visual narratives which explore the presence — and absence — of diverse themes in environmental history.
LEAVE NO TRACE
Want to know the exact coordinates or location of that pristine-looking natural place featured in one of our posts? We’re not telling. The exact locations of all stories featured on this blog which directly implicate sites in the wilderness or other natural areas will be kept private — unless they are so singularly iconic that their visual identity is already unavoidably, digitally ubiquitous (i.e., “The Mall” in Central Park, New York). Geographic points indicated on this map will only ever indicate the location of a visual narrative in relation to corresponding human settlement or public park (i.e., a nearby town, a public park’s main address). The story map functions to illustrate and track the reach of this project only — the choice to denote only general location is one made in the hope of illustrating the reach of female influence on natural space and so, culture.
Additionally, this project commits to the responsible use of film development in-field. When developing in-field, all chemicals are carefully contained at all times and the utmost protections are taken to ensure leakage, spillage, or breakage rendering chemical entrance into the environment is avoided. This project holds itself to the highest standards of chemical disposal, and maintains this standard in the field by ‘carrying out what is carried in’ in the interest of protecting vulnerable communities, ecologies, and special populations. Read the Sustainability Statement.