The Colour Green is a new podcast from Julie’s Bicycle exploring the links between climate change, race, nature and social justice from the perspectives of people of colour in the UK.

We are all stewards of our planet, but the effects of climate change are not shared equally. While it is people in the Global South and marginalised communities in the Global North who are the first to feel the impacts of environmental degradation, extreme weather events, food crop failure, and air pollution, their voices are rarely heard within environmental movements in the UK. Without representing communities at the sharpest end of climate impacts the stories we tell are incomplete; drawing focus to their lived experiences and creative responses are crucial to developing a holistic understanding of the causes of and solutions to this unfolding crisis.

In The Colour Green podcasts, Baroness Lola Young is in conversation with artists and activists of colour who are at the forefront of social innovation - connecting climate justice, race, power and inequality.

In this episode we meet Ama Josephine Budge, a Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist. Ama is a convener of I/Mages of Tomorrow anti-conference, co-founder of The Batty Mama, and a PhD candidate in climate change & pleasure practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ama chose Hampstead Heath in North London for her walk, taking us on a journey through a childhood split between London, Cornwall and Accra.

Ama will also be co-convening a conference on rest, resistance and pleasure activism at Birkbeck University this October, called The Art of Not Doing.

See more of Ama’s work: https://www.amajosephinebudge.com/

Find out more about The Art of Not Doing Conference: www.theartofnotdoing.com

Follow Ama on Twitter: @AmJamB

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