“In this case, the transformative potential being: the ecological harms of misogynoir and anti-Indigeneity affect Black women extremely intensely, and those effects also guarantee a despairing destruction for all directly responsible and/or indirectly complicit.”
This quote refers to misogynoir and anti-Indegeneity being destructors of the environment and ruining society as a whole. Both are responsible for widespread oppression of Black and Indigenous women who are affected the most by environmental disasters. According to the Combahee Collective, “the major systems of oppression are interlocking” which include sexism, racism, classism, etc. that Black and Indiegenous women face which needs to be dismantled to free society and the environment. (CRCS, 1). This is also connected to the theory of the bottom with James about capitalism and racial capitalism. She describes capitalism as, “a way of organizing the natural world so that non-human nature becomes an instrument of human economic oppression” (James, 49). I found this interesting as Black and Indigenous women are not seen as “human” so their bodies are subjected to labor the same as nature. Additionally, the need to dismantle this destruction is why there is an importance of the transformative potential of both perspectives of Black Feminist Ecological Thought: Black and Indigenous women based on their intersections are being put in danger alongside the environment that will cause ecological and economical harm. The lack of care and respect that capitalism has for the environment and the oppression that Black and Indigenous women face are deeply interconnected forms of injustice.