Ethics

My experience working with NGOs, academia, foundations, community projects, UN agencies, think tanks over a decade now, especially in Germany and Brazil, has given me a critical awareness and intercultural sensitivity to navigate different contexts marked by power imbalances, and a pursuit to address injustices in the fields I am interfering in, from the intersubjective to the global level. My work is committed to contributing to climate and environmental justice in an intersectional way, meaning that I approach historical systems of domination like sexism, racism, ableism, imperialism, nationalism or western scientism as mutually constitutive of climate change and the environmental collapse we are facing. I work with a critical decolonial and intersectional feminist ethics, prioritising collaborative and non-hierarchical processes of sensing, feeling, acting and reflecting together, including the environments and territories touched through my work. I am accountable to the historically marginalised communities, bodies, territories and knowledges that participate in my work. As a queer transdisciplinary action researcher, I value contradiction, questioning, refusal and committed absence as critical practices of contestation and rebelious co-creation in face of capitalist neoliberal institutions and norms of knowledge production that uphold objectivity, productivity, profit-making, and that are sustained by colonial extractivist practices like land grabbing mostly affecting communities and territories in the Global South/Majority, and knowledge appropriation from Indigenous Peoples.