Introduction
Climate change and COVID-19 have hit people worldwide like a double whammy. According to Eastin (2018), women especially, especially Black women in the United States, are more vulnerable when such calamities strike. Nevertheless, feminism may give a path for analysis, action, and advocacy that is uniquely adapted to addressing our time’s greatest difficulties while promoting wellness, health, and fairness for society and individuals. There are no easy answers or quick remedies, but everyone benefits by examining, exposing, and comprehending interrelated injustices. Restorative efforts will ultimately fail if the tangible inequities are not acknowledged and addressed systemically, or else they will collapse under the weight of their own disparity.
The World’s Youngest-Known Feminist Malala Yousafzai
This story was inspired by one of the world’s youngest-known feminists Malala Yousafzai. According to Martínez García (2020), Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, in the Swat Valley region in Pakistan. She received a Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17, making her the second Pakistan to ever received a Nobel Peace Prize and the youngest in the world. Yousafzai is also a renowned education activist. She demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education.
Intersectional Feminist Approach in Crisis Times
The majority of politicians are still attempting to address climate change and the pandemic as distinct issues. We can learn more by focusing on how the crises interact than by evaluating each one independently. According to Carli (2020), like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change has long-term, unequal, and uneven consequences that vary depending on where people stay, who they are, and what they have. By exposing how individuals relate to one another as humans, institutions, and organizations, feminism aids in the identification of these frequent dimensions of suffering. By putting feminism at the core of these challenges, we can develop more equitable policies and programs that benefit everybody. The relevance of intersectional analysis overlooked disparities in society across groups has been demonstrated by feminists. An intersectional feminist approach uncovers how various individuals comply with and respond to disasters within and throughout nations in the context of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusion
Therefore, feminism encourages individuals to pay more attention to context by emphasizing relationships between people and raising awareness of these ties. We can address systemic flaws and develop policies for more egalitarian solutions if we can discern these parallels and disparities amongst groups of individuals. The purpose is to raise diverse voices so that disadvantaged individuals are heard and taken seriously in the halls of power, allowing for greater social equality. Therefore, intersectional feminist answers to the COVID-19 epidemic and climate change are desperately required.
References
Carli, L. L. (2020). Women, Gender equality and COVID-19.Gender in Management: An International Journal. Web.
Eastin, J. (2018). Climate change and gender equality in developing states. World Development, 107, 289-305.
Martínez García, A. B. (2020). Malala Yousafzai: Fighting for Girls’ Rights via Collaboration and Co-construction. In New Forms of Self-Narration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.