Melanate Green Spaces

This week Good News Gals Emily and Morgan cover Dr. Carolyn Finney.

Green spaces offer benefits to our physical, mental, and social health, but they aren’t experienced or accessed equally. As a teacher, storyteller, and “accidental environmentalist,” Dr. Carolyn Finney asks us to join her in reckoning with the question of “which public” our outdoor spaces serve and how we can collectively re-create these spaces for everyone. 

Carolyn argues that we cannot control the skin we are born in and so whiteness is no worse than blackness or brownness BUT the way that whiteness has been weaponized and systemically given power is where it becomes problematic. 

To learn more:

Black Faces White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

TEDx : Whose Story Counts?

Melanin Base Camp Guide to Outdoor Allyship

**Disclaimer** This episode was recorded a week prior and thus does not address the murder of Daunte Wright during the conversation about police traffic stops.