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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In the week of World Labour Day, this episode reflects on why expanding meaningful work and life pathways is key. 🎧 Listen: buzzsprout.com/1999556/epis... #ClimateBrides #ClimateJustice #EndChildMarriage
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SEASON 2/ Episode 09: Sajeda Amin on marriage, work, and alternative futures in Bangladesh and beyond. - The Climate Brides Podcast
The Climate Brides podcast will bring to you a series of conversations on early and forced marriages, and the climate crisis in South Asia. We will listen to survivors, frontline workers, activists, a...
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Drawing on decades of research across Bangladesh, Malawi, Niger and Mali, Sajeda Amin shows early marriage is not just culture or poverty. It is about risk, livelihoods, and the absence of real alternatives. 🌿
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🌏 New Episode | S2, Ep 09 of Climate Brides is out now ✨ On marriage, work, and alternative futures in Bangladesh and beyond. With Sajeda Amin on how livelihoods and climate pressures shape marriage decisions. 🧵👇 www.buzzsprout.com/1999556/epis... @reetiks.bsky.social @doremai.bsky.social
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
1/ Welcome to Part 2 of our #ClimateBridesMap series. We’re tracing how climate change deepens the structural drivers of child marriage in South Asia. We focus on: Gendered Labour Burdens in a Changing Climate. 👩‍🌾💧Text: @reetiks.bsky.social Art: @doremai.bsky.social Support: @cam-repro.bsky.social
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Climate change is reshaping the contexts in which child marriage persists in South Asia. 🌊💍 Floods, droughts, economic uncertainty are changing how families navigate risk and futures. @climatebrides.bsky.social explores these links through stories and research. Explore climatebrides.com
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We want to hear from you. How are you seeing these dynamics unfold in your community or work? Share your insights, stories, or questions with us! ☘️
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
At Climate Brides, we are learning not to reduce these realities to causes and effects. We trace messy, intersecting pressures. 🔖Read more about why the climate crisis demands deeper, more critical stories on our website: www.climatebrides.com/about-us 👇
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About | Climate Brides
An open-access multimedia platform that (un)ties the knots between climate change and child marriage in South Asia. Dive deeper into the interlinkages.
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Marriage may become a survival strategy. A mobility tactic. A last resort. What looks like tradition could also be a response to shrinking choices. 👇
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
⚡In South Asia, rising heat, floods, and droughts are deepening longstanding inequalities, but the link between climate and child marriage is not linear. It is complex, shaped by poverty, migration, patriarchy, and the absence of strong institutions. 👇
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Is climate change causing child marriage? It is NOT that simple. 👇
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
14/ This isn’t just about marriage. It’s about inequality, labour, care, climate—and whose work is valued when crisis hits. Please share to keep the conversation going. #ClimateBridesMap #ClimateBrides
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
13/ Want to learn more? Explore the full Climate Brides Map: 🌐 climatebrides.com/map Follow @ClimateBrides for more.
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Map | Climate Brides
An open-access multimedia platform that (un)ties the knots between climate change and child marriage in South Asia. Explore and download our Climate Brides Map.
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
12/ To create just, effective policy, we need climate responses that: ✅ Recognise gendered labour ✅ Share work fairly ✅ Reduce the burden on girls & women Because resilience isn’t gender-neutral. #ClimateJustice is #GenderJustice
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
11/ What’s missing from climate policy? Most plans treat households as gender-neutral. But they rarely ask: 📍Who’s doing the unpaid work? 📍How does crisis shift that labour? 📍How does this shape child marriage risk?
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
10/ At the same time, boys—especially in rural or low-income areas—are pushed into work early. They may migrate, take dangerous jobs, or leave school to support families. These shifts also influence decisions around girls. #ClimateJustice #ChildMarriageCrisis
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
9/ Climate change affects boys & men too—especially through disrupted livelihoods. Erratic weather hits crops & incomes. But expectations to “provide” don’t shift. When that breaks down, families may turn to early marriage as a form of control or relief.
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
8/ Pakistan, 2022 floods: 30M+ people affected. In camps, girls cared for siblings, elders, the sick. With schools shut and resources low, some families saw early marriage as a way to cope with prolonged crisis. climatebrides.buzzsprout.com/1999556/epis...
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Episode 05: Maryam Jamali on flash floods, humanitarian aid and survival marriages in Balochistan - The Climate Brides Podcast
The Climate Brides podcast will bring to you a series of conversations on early and forced marriages, and the climate crisis in South Asia. We will listen to survivors, frontline workers, activists, a...
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
7/ Bundelkhand, India: Girls walk up to 15km a day for water during drought. Education becomes harder to sustain. Marriage becomes a practical—if painful—decision. khabarlahariya.org/weight-of-wa...
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Weight of Water: The Gendered Toll of Water Scarcity in Bundelkhand
Summers in Bundelkhand bring not only scorching temperatures but also water scarcity, making life difficult for locals. This report takes a closer look at the lives of women in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba ...
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
6/ This growing burden often pushes girls out of school. First, fewer days in class. Then, full withdrawal. 🚸 Marriage becomes less about tradition, more about narrowed options. #GirlsNotBrides #IntersectionalJustice
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
5/ Climate change makes daily survival harder: 🌱 Drought = longer water walks 🌊 Floods = displacement & caregiving 🌾 Food shortages = more pressure on girls’ labour Girls take on more—at home & in informal work. Often unpaid. Often unprotected. #ClimateBrides
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
4/ As climate pressures grow, so do these demands. Girls lose time to study, rest, or play. Some families see marriage as a way to pass on or reduce that labour—a coping strategy under stress. 💁‍♀️⚒️🌀 #FeministClimateAction #ClimateBrides
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
3/ Girls, especially, face this burden early. Their labour is often framed as “helping out,” rather than acknowledged as real work. Because it’s linked to obedience & preparation for marriage, it comes without rights or limits. ⚖️ #UnpaidCareWork #GenderJustice #ClimateBrides
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
2/ What does that mean? In many homes, work isn’t shared equally. Women & girls do most of the unpaid care & survival labour— Cooking. Collecting water. Caring for others. Farming. It’s vital—but rarely recognised or protected. #ClimateBrides
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
1/ Welcome to Part 2 of our #ClimateBridesMap series. We’re tracing how climate change deepens the structural drivers of child marriage in South Asia. We focus on: Gendered Labour Burdens in a Changing Climate. 👩‍🌾💧Text: @reetiks.bsky.social Art: @doremai.bsky.social Support: @cam-repro.bsky.social
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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🌍 New from our colleague @reetiks.bsky.social: As climate shocks disrupt education and livelihoods, girls are increasingly pushed into early marriage across South Asia. @climatebrides.bsky.social Read this piece here: scroll.in/article/1082...
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Climate change is eroding safety nets, accelerating child marriage in South Asia
With collapse of education systems, girls from vulnerable families are turned into labour and an economic resource.
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
📢 @reetiks.bsky.social, via #ClimateBrides, shows how climate shocks—job loss, school closures, displacement—drive early marriages in South Asia. Urges urgent adaptation to protect adolescents. @scroll.in @developmentuea.bsky.social scroll.in/article/1082...
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Climate change is eroding safety nets, accelerating child marriage in South Asia
With collapse of education systems, girls from vulnerable families are turned into labour and an economic resource.
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
While often explained through the lens of tradition or poverty, child marriage is increasingly shaped by a force largely absent from most climate adaptation frameworks: the accelerating environmental crisis scroll.in/article/1082...
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Climate change is eroding safety nets, accelerating child marriage in South Asia
With collapse of education systems, girls from vulnerable families are turned into labour and an economic resource.
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Run by UEA's @reetiks.bsky.social and undoubtedly worth <3mins of your time
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Cambridge Festival @cambridgefestival.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🇮🇳 Mary E. John on Childhood, Marriage, and Changing Narratives in India with @climatebrides.bsky.social. ⚛️ Russell Cowburn: physics, faith... and nanotechnology from @cambridgephysics.bsky.social
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
☘️ We’ve just released a short video walkthrough of our post on Gender Inequality & Climate Change—the first in our #ClimateBridesMap series on child marriage in South Asia. For those who prefer to watch instead of read: youtu.be/SmBrZC2-NG0?...
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Gender Inequality in a Changing Climate | Climate Brides
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(9/9) And do tune in to our latest interview with Prof. Mary E. John on unpacking childhood, marriage, and changing narratives in India on the #ClimateBridesPodcast climatebrides.buzzsprout.com @cam-repro.bsky.social @reetiks.bsky.social
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(8/9) Follow the #ClimateBridesMap series as we trace how poverty, displacement, food insecurity, and more shape girls’ futures in a warming world. Explore the full map here: climatebrides.com/map #ClimateBrides #GenderJustice #EndChildMarriage #FeministClimateAction #SouthAsia @doremai.bsky.social
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(7/9) To fight child marriage, we have to fight the systems that allow it to thrive under pressure. That means confronting gender norms, unpaid care work, masculine expectations—and the climate crisis itself. #ClimateBridesMap #GenderInequality
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(6/9) But let’s be clear: climate change doesn’t cause child marriage. It deepens the cracks patriarchy already created. And it turns injustice into policy, into practice, into fate. #ClimateBridesMap #GenderInequality
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(5/9) In #Bangladesh, child marriage surged after Cyclone Amphan. In #Nepal, drought and male migration have pushed girls out of school and into marriage. Climate hits, and gender decides the fallout. #ClimateBridesMap #GenderInequality
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(4/9) When families lose crops, homes, or income: Girls are married to reduce “burden”. Boys are pushed to earn. Marriage becomes a way to cope with loss and fear. #ClimateBridesMap #GenderInequality
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(3/9) Girls are taught to be modest, obedient, marriageable. Boys are raised to be providers and protectors. These roles aren't just cultural—they’re survival scripts. And climate shocks make them more rigid. #ClimateBridesMap #GenderInequality
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(2/9) In South Asia, gender inequality shapes everything from access to food and education to control over decisions. ⚖️ When crisis strikes, these inequalities don’t pause—they accelerate. #ClimateBridesMap
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
☘️🌐 We're launching the #ClimateBridesMap series. We begin with Gender Inequality—because it is not just a backdrop, it is the system that decides who gets protected in a crisis and who gets married off. Let’s break it down. @cam-repro.bsky.social @reetiks.bsky.social @doremai.bsky.social (1/9)
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🌱 Download the map, share your insights, and help drive action on this critical intersection of gender and climate justice: www.climatebrides.com/map #ClimateJustice #GenderEquality #EndChildMarriage #WomenAndClimate #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalJustice
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
💬 We’d love to hear your thoughts! ➡️ What insights do you draw from the map? ➡️ Can you help identify additional linkages between climate risks and gender inequality? Your reflections and retweets can help amplify this conversation. #ClimateBrides
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Curious to explore these connections? Our Climate Brides Map is available for download here: 👉 www.climatebrides.com Use it to spark conversations, guide research, or inform advocacy on gender and climate justice. ⚖️✊️🌐
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Home | Climate Brides
Set against the backdrop of rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, the Climate Brides Podcast brings to you a series of conversations on early and forced marriages and the climate crisis ...
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
📍By mapping these connections, we aim to highlight the urgent need for integrated responses that address both climate vulnerability and gender inequality. Rising environmental pressures are deepening existing risks — and the impacts are real. #ClimateJustice #GenderJustice
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🌍 Climate change isn’t gender-neutral. Women and girls are often disproportionately affected. Our Climate Brides Map reveals how climate-induced displacement, economic instability, and resource scarcity increase risks like child marriage. Download: www.climatebrides.com/map
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Set against the backdrop of rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, the Climate Brides Podcast brings to you a series of conversations on early and forced marriages and the climate crisis ...
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Have you seen our #ClimateBrides Map yet? Illustrated by @doremai.bsky.social, this map highlights how climate risks in South Asia intensify the drivers of child marriage —an urgent yet overlooked consequence of environmental stress. 🗺️ Download: www.climatebrides.com/map
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Maitri Dore @doremai.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Poster by yours truly for the phenomenal @reetiks.bsky.social and @climatebrides.bsky.social.
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Reetika Revathy Subramanian, PhD @reetiks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We also exhibited our #ClimateBridesMap and showcased our recent film made on the @climatebrides.bsky.social podcast. Special shout out to @doremai.bsky.social for her compelling artwork! 🌻 Watch the film: youtu.be/apeZrp0GylA?...
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Reetika Revathy Subramanian, PhD @reetiks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
With right-wing clampdowns on gender/climate issues, last night's #CambridgeFestival panel felt timely. The talk on Reproductive Justice w/ @cam-repro.bsky.social showed how climate change is already impacting lives back home. Grateful to share this through our work at @climatebrides.bsky.social 🌱
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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Check out the new film involving our recent PhD Reetika Subramanian!
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Climate Brides @climatebrides.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Follow our journey and stay updated on Instagram, X, and Bluesky for more updates! @climatebrides.bsky.social #ClimateBrides #ChildMarriageAwareness #ClimateChangeImpact #AnimatedFilm #Documentary #SouthAsia #CUSPE #CambridgeFestival
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