As I mentioned in my previous post, I was invited to present my work on “Outer Space Justice” at the LatCrit 2023 Biennial Conference, which is taking place this weekend. By coincidence, my colleague and new friend Dean Spade gave the Jerome M. Culp Memorial Lecture yesterday (Friday, 6 October), and at the end of his lecture he lamented in passing how some billionaires on Earth are considering creating colonies in outer space in response to ecological threats on Earth. This observation provides the perfect backdrop for my talk on “Outer Space Justice” later today. Although the focus of my talk is narrow and technical (see here, for example), my short slide deck is posted below:


