Solaire Denaud (She/They/Elle/Iel) is a French and Haitian doctoral candidate in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a 2025-2026 Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow. Her research explores the role of animal and environmental ethics in key anti-racist political and artistic movements, including Rastafari, the Nation of Islam, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Civil Rights Movement, Southern midwifery, Afro-futurism, and Womanism. By analyzing the food practices and dietary restrictions within these movements, she argues that the environment and the animal realm were never absent from their visions for the future of the African diaspora, but an integral part of Black liberation, futurities, and spiritualities. She also asks what Black feminist lessons and understandings of care can be learned from analyzing discourses on dietary restrictions, cooking, and gardening within movements often mistakenly regarded as solely masculine. Solaire’s research is featured in the international documentary Third Degree Burnout (2025) by Nivi Jaswal, which questions and cross-analyzes individual burnout, fast-paced capitalism, and environmental degradation. In this documentary, Solaire explores the ecological consequences of chattel slavery and the spreading of plantation-like agriculture to the world.