Application Deadline: July 15, 2019
Are you a young feminist working towards climate and environmental justice? Are you a young feminist writer/journalist passionate about environmental justice and looking for more opportunities to write about what feminists are doing in this area? Are you both? This fellowship is for you!
In partnership with OpenGlobalRights , FRIDA is thrilled to announce Climate and Environmental Justice Media Fellowship , a five-month program designed to provide mentorship and training to Global South young feminists on climate and environmental justice activism and digital journalism. This Fellowship is for young feminists interested in amplifying the issues at the intersection of climate and environmental justice and gender rights and strengthening their critical, sharp, and influential writing.
Eligibility Requirements:
You are eligible to apply for this fellowship if you meet the following criteria:
● You are a young feminist (between ages of 18 and 30) based anywhere
in Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast and East Asia, the
Pacific, The Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean and Central, Southern, Eastern Europe and Central and North
Asia and willing to travel in the pursuit of the story. Applicants based
in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are not
eligible to apply for this fellowship.
● You are passionate about climate and environmental justice and young
feminist organizing, and want to communicate this specifically through
writing to your community and the world. You are someone who is locally,
regionally or internationally connected to networks, groups, and
communities in the climate and environmental movements and/or gender
justice movements, and who wants to share with a wider audience the
context of your local and regional struggles, and the alternatives,
solutions, and projects that your communities are working on.
● You are particularly dedicated to an intersectional lens and bridging
the communication between climate and environmental justice movements
and gender justice movements. You are a natural communicator, skilled
narrator, social leader or community organiser who know that this work
of communicating in of itself is important movement-building work.
● You have a background in activism and writing, especially organising
with or in collaboration with rural, indigenous, and black youth and
grassroots communities, LBTQIA groups, feminist collectives, or workers’
unions, and are keen in gaining more experience as a journalist,
writer, and advocate by working with fellow organisers, established
editors and publishing on an international platform.
● You can be dedicated to the fellowship, support your cohort fellows,
and communicate reliably about your progress, obstacles and questions to
the fellowship team. Ideally you are ready to challenge yourself, your
politics and writing through this fellowship and create brave, original,
sharp analysis, reporting and content.
● You can communicate and write proficiently in English, as this will be the main language used during the fellowship program.
Requirements:
FRIDA is looking for four (4) passionate, creative and fierce young fellows who are already working on, writing about, or are interested in reporting and analyzing the following topics and more:
● Communities and/or feminist resistance, resilience and organising in the face of fundamentalist governments extractivist industries (like coal and fracking exploitation, and mining, hydro dams and monocultures projects)
● Differentiated impacts of climate change on global south communities, women, young feminists, young trans* people
● Community-led solutions and initiatives to address the impacts of climate change, such as decentralized renewable energy systems, food sovereignty programs, land justice policies, with a perspective of systemic change and a just transition
● Decolonial practices, theories, actions and demands of young feminists
● Both physical and digital protection to social and environmental land defenders, including women, young feminists, young trans* people.
Responsibilities
ellows will produce two media pieces of young feminist organizing for climate and environmental justice in their local or regional context, based upon the project’s thematic guidlines. The format for the media pieces will be digital journalism (articles, investigative pieces, op-eds, narratives, essays). Specific topics will be decided in a collaborative way between fellows, content advisors and editors.
● Fellows commit to have one check-in call with their main editors per media piece; they are required to participate in at least three webinars / training sessions; they are required to be in general and regular group online communication for check-in and sharing through Slack and emails.
● Fellows will work in English throughout the program (this includes training sessions, emails, and general communication, and editorial feedback). Their media pieces will be translated into Spanish and another third relevant language.
● One sample of unpublished or published* writing
*By published, we mean a writing sample that is a blog post, an article on a website, magazine, newspaper, fanzine, or a storytelling platform.
Fellows will dedicate 4-5 hours per week (total of 15-20 hours per month) from August 1 – December 13, 2019.
How to Apply:
You must submit your application thorough a simple and short Google form in order to apply. All applications are due on or before July 15, 2019
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the Climate & Environmental Justice Media Fellowship 2019