TABLE 1.

Narratives from queer Black individuals engaging in conservation action and environmental stewardship.

Individual	Occupation or organization	Narrative
Ashia Ajani (she/they)	Environmental justice educator	“Our right to take up space and be out in nature, unabashedly, to enjoy the air and the feel of lake water against our palms, to not fear for our lives, is often dictated through the lens of white supremacy. This is one of the reasons I committed to environmental studies and reclaiming Black and brown ancestral knowledge of the land.”
Elan Alford (she/her)	Plant conservation scientist	“Plant beauty, fragility, and resilience taught me about myself. Finding myself through working with plants has happened gradually after accumulating hours, days, and years working in silence, apart from humans but with sounds of nature, the wind gusting, the birds calling, babbling brooks, buzzing flies, rattling snakes.”
Neshima Vitale‐Penniman (she/they)	Soul Fire Farm	“Since I was small, I have gathered and down seeds, discovering deep belonging in intimate relationships with my non‐human kin. I have grown to understand this as part of an inheritance from my Black and Indigenous ancestors who recognized land and living beings as inextricably bound with self. As a child of treetops, spring peepers, and thunderstorms, my intersectional identities as a queer multiracial Black‐Taino‐Jewish‐Ifa‐practitioner inform my commitment to justice and liberation for the Earth and her marginalized and threatened inhabitants.”
Cesar Estien (he/they)	PhD candidate	“Issues of conservation and justice, particularly those in urban areas, require recognizing and engaging with the many systems of oppression that disproportionately affect us (i.e., (queer) Black people), such as mass incarcerations and community surveillance. So, when I see the future of conservation and inevitably myself in it, I see a justice‐centered field that recognizes myriad livelihoods, knowledges, and experiences such that communities that have been oppressed in the name of conservation have stakes in our collective future.”