This essay makes the case for an approach to climate justice grounded in Black feminist thought. I outline one such approach by adopting the analytic and method of Black feminist hauntology. One of my aims is to depart from the erasure of Black womxn in climate discourse and strategy, as marked either by vulnerability, abjection, and the inevitability of dispossession and death, or by astounding “resilience” in the face of repeated devastation, violence, and abandonment (Baker 2019; Sharpe 2013).1 Although there is much to be done in terms of registering differential impacts or racist violence against Black womxn, I want to center (and make the case for centering) Black feminist thought as a crucial way to reimagine climate justice. In this aspiration, I am guided by Hortense Spillers’ self-described labor. In Spillers’ words:

I saw . . . black people being treated as a kind of raw...

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