Obsidian Radical and Rooted
About Event
Our NYC Black Girl Environmentalist Hub is hosting a community breakfast on Monday, September 21st, at the Bench (49 Elizabeth St, 6th floor, New York, NY 10013). This breakfast is curated in honor of the Black Panthers, but specifically the Black women who have built Black liberation movements into a global effort to pursue the greatest quality of life and justice for women, children, and all who are marginalized, including the environment and the impact of a changing climate on Black communities. OBSIDIAN: Rooted + Radiant kicks off the morning with an intergenerational breakfast and conversation with prolific frontline leaders and Black feminists born and bred in New York City:
Najha Zigbi-Johnson, author of ‘Mapping Malcolm ’, Columbia Press 2024
Yasmeen Amatul Allaah Majid: New African, Black Panther Party (BPP) veteran,
mother, grandmother.
We will close this breakfast out with a herbalism activation for folks to make natural hair and skin care products and the launch of BGE Lorena James’ Book Club of Farmer Cee’s ‘Black Girls Guide to Building a Boutique Farm’. This day is rooted in helping attendees leave reflecting more deeply on how they start their day as a reflection of nature and ecology. We move people to start this climate week with the same young Black Women, now matriarchs, and their community who built a movement of resistance and liberation for all Black people, but an intersectional movement for all.
11: Doors + Breakfast
11:20 - 12:20: Share out from Women of Black Panthers/National Alumni Association of Black Panthers + Black Women Radicals moderated by Najha Zigbi Johnson 10 MINUTE BREAK: Biofuel + Set up
12:30 - 1:15: Rooted Mornings: A Roundtable on Self-Care, Inspired by Farmer Cee + Tincture demonstration: carrier bases + herbs + digital toolkit/zine from Lorena James
1:15 - 1:30: Closing remarks
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About Black Girl Environmentalist
Black Girl Environmentalist is a national organization dedicated to addressing the pathway and retention issue in the climate movement for Black girls, women, and gender-expansive people.
We resource, re-center, and rally Black girl environmentalists (BGEs) to empower them to take collective action against the climate crisis. When we bring Black women from the margins to the center, the rest of society benefits.
About chilli
chilli is a digital action platform for climate and social justice, designed to make it easy to take action on what matters. Every action on the platform takes under two minutes, we act as a hub for petitions, open letters, pressure campaigns. chilli exists to close the gap between your audience knowing something is wrong and actually doing something about it.