This issue of Rejoinder explores the Climate Crisis in our midst. The climate breakdown is causing rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and the circulation of new pathogens. Women and children, the majority of the world’s poor, are already disproportionately burdened by its effects. “Climate change,” as former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson so astutely notes, “requires a feminist solution.” As the essays, poetry, and art in this issue of Rejoinder show, feminists are at the forefront of documenting the intensifying climate catastrophe and acting in creative ways to avert its worst effects.
Rejoinder is an online journal published by the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers University in partnership with The Feminist Art Project.