DEREK SHERRANGE

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Life is Already Serious: A Report from the Madrid Student Encampment
Life is Already Serious: A Report from the Madrid Student Encampment

John Collins and Derek Sherrange report from Madrid, Spain, where students are turning up the heat on universities that remain complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Remember the T in LGBTQIA+: Trans Community Faces Increasing Violence in Coastal Kenya
Remember the T in LGBTQIA+: Trans Community Faces Increasing Violence in Coastal Kenya

Recently Kenya has come into the global spotlight following the murder of fashion designer, model, and LGBTQIA+ activist Edwin Chiloba in a suspected hate crime in January 2023. However, there are LGBTQIA+ people in Kenya who rarely make it into the global and even national media spotlight - people like Wayne, a monitor with the Center for Minority Rights, who is working to protect and support LGBTQIA+ people in the coastal region of Kenya.

Talking Wings - The Collective Behind the Summit
Talking Wings - The Collective Behind the Summit

In the final installment of his series on Decolonization and Food Sovereignty, Derek Sherrange introduces us to Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo and Blake Lavia of the Talking Wings Collective, the driving voice behind the North Country Art, Land & Environment Summit beginning on September 9, 2020.

Food Sovereignty and the Future of Regenerative Farming
Food Sovereignty and the Future of Regenerative Farming

In his third article previewing the upcoming North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit to be held from September 9 to October 2, Derek Sherrange draws on the work of educator and farmer Dr. Himanee Gupta-Carlson to explore the concept of food sovereignty and its relevance for the work of overcoming settler-colonial structures and building regenerative forms of agriculture.

Ecocentrism – Looking to Other Ways of Knowing
Ecocentrism – Looking to Other Ways of Knowing

In his second article previewing the upcoming North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit to be held from September 9 to October 2, Derek Sherrange draws on the work of Dr. Claudia Ford (SUNY Potsdam) to explore the tensions between mainstream (settler) environmentalism and indigenous paradigms grounded in ecocentrism and traditional ecological knowledge.

On Settler Colonialism: Hearing from the Kanien:keha'ka (Mohawk) Nation
On Settler Colonialism: Hearing from the Kanien:keha'ka (Mohawk) Nation

In preparation for the upcoming North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit to be held from September 9 to October 2, Derek Sherrange begins a new series on food sovereignty and decolonization. In this first installment, Sherrange provides an overview of the concept of settler colonialism and shares the insights of Katsitsionni Fox (Bear Clan), a Kanien:keha'ka (Mohawk) artist, filmmaker, and educator.

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