A review by themartinmama
Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature by Shaz Zamore, Amber Wendler

4.0

Powerful collection of stories of black women and nonbinary scientists and their stories of being outside.
My favorites were
Discovering Seasonal Lee, Title TK,
A Home in Climbing, Out Here,
Together We Turn, and
The (Un)Written Rulebook.

And it was important for me to connect the dots and realize just how far back
white supremacy goes in the outdoor world from colonized names of mountain passes and rock climbing paths to even botanical naming systems. And how unwelcome white supremacy has tried to make people of color in the outdoors which should be free and safe for everyone, let alone these expert scientists.