#1244: Intergenerational Arts-based Storytelling: Fostering Solidarity Learning Toward Climate Justice

Arts-based storytelling can counter epistemic injustice in climate education by centering lived experiences of minoritized communities. Drawing on critical participatory ethnography with Arab American immigrant youth, families, and teachers, we co-analyze collaborative climate change mapmaking as intergenerational knowledge work. Art fostered solidarity by legitimizing lived realities, incubating new onto-epistemologies, linking local and global experiences, and nurturing critical consciousness for climate justice advocacy. We share the artwork of our participants