Naomi Leung 梁珮恩 (they/them) is a Han Cantonese settler, mixed media artist and photographer, and climate justice education facilitator and organizer. With familial connections to Malaysia and Hong Kong, Naomi critically (re)imagines livable and liberated histories and futures through a queer Sinophone perspective.
Naomi is a recent graduate from UBC. They studied BSc Global Resource Systems and Psychology where they integrated environmental and climate change studies with global health, the study of climate emotions, and the Asian diaspora.
Lovestruck (to be held by the land) explores how reciprocal, loving, and queer relationships can inform our connection to the land. What are our responsibilities to challenge and reimagine imposed colonial binaries such as human vs nature? Whose ecologies, embodied knowledges, and histories are valued and devalued?
Model: Laylo Juraeva - Linktree
Photo by Yin Mei
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Naomi desires to create anti-colonial spaces centering racialized queer and trans peoples to process intergenerational trauma, grief, and to co-create possibilities and programming for hope and healing. Their organizing work with Asha Collective, Climate Education Reform BC, The Climate Justice Organizing HUB, Sustainabiliteens, UBC Climate Hub, and UBC Sustainability transformed them and informed their practices for love and liberation. Naomi’s photography has been published in Dear Asian Youth Literature, Solastalgia zine, Petal Projections, UBC ACAM student journal, and their art has been exhibited in the James Black Gallery, Hatch Art Gallery, and Imagination for Liberation art show.
How does the land hold you?
rerooting, rerouting is sword fern collective’s online publication on climate emotions.
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