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Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist?

https://lemmy.world/post/33794230

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? - Lemmy.World

Epilogue: After that film was finished, the team went on to drill the deepest ice core ever drilled in the Americas https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/05/deepest-ice-core-in-the-americas-drilled-in-canadian-arctic.html [https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/05/deepest-ice-core-in-the-americas-drilled-in-canadian-arctic.html]

Aug 1, 2025 at 4:38amWeb
Show threadFredselfishAug 1, 2025
Probably because they are caving to demands from Trump. Fucking cowards.
Show threadindividualAug 1, 2025
OK, but also what does being queer have to do with climate science?
Show threadhalcyoncmdrAug 1, 2025
Both are against the Republican cult’s beliefs. Science in general, but especially climate science.
Show threadindividualAug 1, 2025
I guess that’s true
Show threadPunnyNameAug 1, 2025
Representation matters in all areas of life.
Show threadindividualAug 1, 2025
not sure the climate cares. It’s already killed countless species.
Show threadouthouseperilousAug 1, 2025
Yes but queers can’t be seen, and climate scientists were never this admin’s favorite.
Show threadouthouseperilousAug 1, 2025
Nothing anymore, if you want to stay out of the camps.
Show threadCosmicTurtle0 [he/him]Aug 1, 2025
Absolutely nothing. But it seems like for the alt right, being queer is enough to disqualify your credentials and even your personhood.
Show threadindividualAug 2, 2025
maybe not that extreme, but that’s a pretty fair claim I think
Show threadmeyotchAug 1, 2025

A queer person did some excellent climate science, that’s how the two subjects relate. If you ignore either aspect of the story, well, it isn’t the full story.

Did you know that queer people have a right to exist and that questioning the relevance of their queerness to their work is essentially denying their humanity?

Show threadindividualAug 2, 2025

never knew that.

does the same go for all subgroups world wide?

Show threadmeyotchAug 2, 2025

Yes.

Would one question the relevance of a biography that mentioned that an accomplished straight male scientist was a ‘family man’ or that a scientist was also a married woman with children?

Questioning the validity of mentioning that a scientist is queer is identical to the attitude that queer people are fine as long as they are invisible.

It was a biography, biographies mention biographical details. Yet when that detail is ‘queer’, people feel empowered to complain it was even mentioned.

I’m not on the defensive here. I intend to come across as offensive. You tell US exactly why mentioning that a person is queer is not relevant in a biographical sketch.

Show threadindividualAug 2, 2025
OK so where is the representation of people with arthritis, Zoroastrians, & people from Bangladesh?
Show threadmeyotchAug 2, 2025

Ok, you are a sealion, cool, good to know.

Did you know you can mention multiple facts about a person in a biography and they are all valid and mentionable?

Show threadDragonTypeWyvernAug 2, 2025
Especially when that particular part of their identity is under attack.
Show threadmeyotchAug 2, 2025

I know that my engagement in this exercise will not change their opinion. I am engaged because this shit is exhausting and it is exactly the thing to challenge at this moment.

I think it’s time to start wearing these, before they become mandatory again.

pink triangles

Show threadindividualAug 3, 2025
but are they all represented, since representation matters?
Show threadShrimpCurlerAug 2, 2025
I mean, you’ll never really get the full story of anything if it requiers every adjacent detail, there’s just too much detail in any event to document it all. So, I think it’s more that being queer is an important part of this story because queer people have been marginalised. So, it’s important that they have good representation and their achievements are celebrated.
Show threadSoftestSapphicAug 2, 2025
Wow you are a shit person aren’t you?
Show threadindividualAug 3, 2025
I don’t think so.
Show threadburgerpocalyseAug 3, 2025
alan turing was queer, helped fight nazis, and was rewarded by his government by free chemical castration or prison, and then killed himself.
Show threadohulancutashAug 1, 2025
Because Disney doesn’t want to prejudice M&A.
Show threadcaptainlezbianAug 1, 2025
Because light reverses
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Show threadLainTrainAug 1, 2025
Explanation?
Show threadcaptainlezbianAug 1, 2025
So the line is from a surrealist section of an americana surrealist horror series about the fight between anarchism, liberalism, and fascism. I’ve always interpreted that particular answer to the question “why did the chicken cross the road” to mean people had to take action because progress turned to backlash. Why did this work disappear? Because progress turned to backlash
Show threadtaneAug 2, 2025
The fact that those are the only three ideologies tells me it was probably written by an anarchist lol
Show threadcaptainlezbianAug 2, 2025

It was written in the 10s and none of those ideologies are named specifically. Anarchy could easily be read as leftism as a whole. The whole story is deeply symbolic with fascism being represented by people who physically turn into monsters through a lifetime of hatred.

But yeah it’s by the nightvale people and it’s an excellent podcast/radio show

Show threaddellishAug 1, 2025
Isn’t National Geographic owned by Murdoch? I think that’s your answer (and all why Nat Geo magazine has been almost unreadable for 20 years).
Show threadRvTV95XBeoAug 1, 2025
Nope. Disney.
Show threadboolyAug 3, 2025

From the article:

There are multiple organizations broadly known as “National Geographic,” so before we go any further, let’s run through some definitions and distinctions. In 2018, Disney bought a majority stake in an entity called National Geographic Partners, LLC—or NGP, for short. This is the for-profit company that encompasses the magazine, the television channel, and other properties that live under the Nat Geo brand. It was formed in 2015 by then–majority partner 21st Century Fox and the 137-year-old National Geographic Society. The Society is a registered non-profit organization, and it remains a 27 percent-owner of NGP, even after Fox’s sale of its 73-percent share to Disney. When I refer to “National Geographic” in this story, I mean the National Geographic Society unless otherwise specified.

In other words, this article is about the nonprofit that has existed for 137 years. The for-profit subsidiaries were 73% acquired by Fox/Murdoch, and then sold to Disney when Disney bought Fox. But this film was published directly by the nonprofit and not the for-profit subsidiary that is partially owned by Disney.

Show threadHausAug 1, 2025
I was going to point out that Fox owns 73% of National Geographic. Turns out thar Disney bought that 73% stake several years ago.
Show threadSimsAug 2, 2025
I think the official ‘wokeness’ was a US campaign to ensure western rage for a war against a conservative/orthodox Russia, but it didn’t work as intended, so now all ‘woke’ projects have been cut off again. I suspect lgbt+, and climate causes/news/events are getting axed while the US Plutocracy prepare for war against China while shielding themselves from a crumbling Dollar. A bit sad that good causes are used like that. Btw, it would have happened with or without Trump.
Show threadzqpsAug 2, 2025

  • What the fuck is “official wokeness”

  • do you understand that equity and inclusion are genuinely good things that millions of people are asking for

    • Show threadDragonTypeWyvernAug 2, 2025
    And even if it was, that’s a good thing, fucking obviously.
    Show threaddrunkpostdisasterAug 2, 2025
    The people who care about the climate are probably the same who find something else to read because of this.
    Show threadlmmarsanoAug 2, 2025
    Queer climate needs all the attention it can get.
    Show threadboolyAug 3, 2025
    This long form article is why I pay for a Defector subscription. It’s a good, well researched article that gives the appropriate background and tells a story that nobody else has told, and that maybe never would have been told, by any other outlet.