Lesbians And Sustainability9/24/2019 I have been a member of the editorial board of the academic Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination and New Anthropology (JKC) for 21 years. Ever since I have been an editor for philosophy at JKC we have had a part of the Journal dedicated to ecology and sustainability, animal rights, feminism, racism and LGBT topics. Here are some of the issues addressing the aforementioned topics: Philosophy of the Nature, Filozofija narave, 2000, editor K. Majerhold), City of Women and Concealed (women's) history I, II (2005, 2015), Lesbian Guerrilla (2013), Green politics (2016), Attractions of Gender (2017, editor K. Majerhold), Violence Against LGBT Youth and Adults (2019, editor K. Majerhold) and many others (see link of the Journal). We re-established a new collection “OIKOS” at the JKC with an intention to fill knowledge gap in the field of Political ecology in Slovenia. We also used to have Oikos part at JKC since 1995 until 2009. I also attended a national conference on Higher Education and Sustainability in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2001 as part of my research. I was accepted at Blekinge Institute of Technology at Karlskrona for master programme in Strategic Leadrship towards Sustainability, however due to long decision making process of the University of Sweden I got their notification by the end of August and could not attend the master course on time (therefore I decided not to attend the course at all). There are some philosophers ecologists worth mentioning, such as Arne Næss who invented the term 'deep ecology' and Luc Ferry with his The New Ecological order who coined the term 'shallow ecology', to name a few with a philosophical view of so called 'deep and shallow ecology'.
I wrote several articles on sustainable transport for green PR website. I use public transport. I am vegan, occasionally vegetarian. If you believe in sustainability you certainly help the nature and animals by being at least vegetarian and use public transport. I have been an ardent animal rights supporter. Personally knowing how is to being oppressed and exploited I can relate to what happens to animals every day, whether it is on factory farms, or in laboratories, circuses, and marine parks. (I have also donated to numerous animal organizations throught the world, from dogs', cats', orangutans', horses', sheep's, donkeys' organizations since 2009). I also adopted several animals. Here are some articles on links between animal rights and LGBT rights, queer and animal rights, nonhuman and human liberation (Direct action everywhere). I have been a member of the Slovenian LGBT community since 1988, I was writing for the Slovenian LGBT magazine Narobe from 2008 until 2016 (for instance Lesbian Love in Ancient Greece , Lesbian Love in Mideaval Times etc.) and blog Narobe since 2016 (some of my articles). I also had a lecture at the only LGBT pub in Ljubljana: different concepts of love (May 2009). I wrote this article today to share my experience with the Slovenian section of the Greta Thunberg's world-wide sustainable movement: I contacted its Slovene section on FB to congratulate and express my support in April. I let them know about my LL Passion website and since some of my previous endeavours in the area of sustainability, animal rights and LGBT rights suggested that we could connect and act together stronger. There was no answer.
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