Creating more opportunities for access to outdoor recreation allows young women of color to define their own narratives in the outdoors. Organizations like Young Women Who Crush and Women’s Wilderness are playing a key role opening up the door to the benefits of spending time in nature. In the second episode of See Us Outside, Gabaccia explores the systemic barriers to accessing the outdoors and the liberation and healing that can occur when a woman of color gets to choose it for herself.

About the series: 

This special She Explores miniseries is made in collaboration with The Cairn Project, and made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.

Host Gabaccia Moreno is our guide in exploring the unique relationships girls and young women of color have with the natural world and outdoor recreation. Through the voices and stories of leaders and participants from diverse outdoor organizations doing the work to help young people of color thrive in the outdoors, this four-part audio miniseries will highlight the joy, connection, and community these girls find in nature, as well as the importance of organizations doing the work to expand outdoor opportunities.

We want to stress that when we say this series highlights women and girls of color, this is inclusive of all cis and trans women and girls, as well as folks of all gender identities who feel comfortable in spaces that center women. That said, for the most part, when we talk about gender we most often do so in terms of those who are socialized as girls and women in a more heteronormative, binary way.

Featured in this episode: Cristal Cisneros, Kriste Peoples, Alexis Krauss, Marian Perez, and Mira Manickam-Shirley;  Voice memo included in this episode were submitted by Gabrilla Ballard.

Hosted by Gabaccia Moreno

Produced by Gabaccia Moreno, Noël Russell, and Gale Straub

A Production of Ravel Media

Resources:

• The Cairn Project
  • Website | Instagram | Facebook
• Organizations Highlighted
  • Young Women Who Crush: Website | Instagram
  • Women’s Wilderness: Website | Instagram | Facebook
  • Brown Girl Surf: Website | Instagram | Facebook
  • The Charles Roundtree Bloom Project: Website | Instagram
• Featured in this episode:
  • Cristal Cisneros
  • Kriste Peoples
  • Alexis Krauss
  • Marian Perez
  • Mira Manickam-Shirley
• Voice Memos Featured
  • Gabrilla Ballard | Instagram | Website
• Host: Gabaccia Moreno
  • Website | Instagram

All Four Episodes of See Us Outside Are Available Now Wherever You Listen to She Explores

The opening See Us Outside Compilation includes the voices of Marinel De Jesus, Yakuta Poonawalla, Meggy Pyaneeandee, Fernanda Jardim, Arlene, Chi Pham, Denise Meeker and Doreen Wong and includes Spanish, French, Portuguese, Tagalog, Hindi, Vietnamese, Cantonese, and English. 

Music by Joy Ike & Sita via MusicBed

Podcast Art by Susana Castro 

@susdraws