Andre Tarleton

climate migration and resilience, disaster capitalism, environmental justice, Black ecologies

I am a native of Louisiana and received my BA in Women's and Gender Studies, MA in Anthropology and Master of Library and Information Sciences from Louisiana State University. In my time as an archivist, working with cultural and historical materials from Louisiana's queer and BIPOC communities drew my attention to the precarity of the cultural history and peoples of the Gulf Coast as climate change increasingly presents dangers to its most vulnerable populations. As a Black feminist anthropologist, my research interests focus on the intersections of race, gender and sexuality with climate migration and resilience, environmental justice, disaster capitalism and fossil fuel divestment on the Gulf Coast.